DOI article:
Marius De Zayas, Caricature: Absolute and Relative
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My caricatures are of two kinds: absolute and relative. I call absolute
caricatures those in which the individual influences time by the whole of his
actions; and relative, those in which time influences the individual—that is
to say when the individual has to make abstraction of his real self to adapt
it to the character of a given moment of circumstance.
I call my latest manner of plastic representation caricatures, only because
they are the natural evolution of my former plastic expression which was
consequent with what has been understood by caricature. They are not art,
but simply a graphical and plastic synthesis of the analysis of individuals.
In presenting them to the public I do nothing but return that which I have
taken from the public. These caricatures are not the expression of my physical
self, but the intrinsic expression, as I perceive it, of the individuals themselves.
Marius De Zayas.
caricatures those in which the individual influences time by the whole of his
actions; and relative, those in which time influences the individual—that is
to say when the individual has to make abstraction of his real self to adapt
it to the character of a given moment of circumstance.
I call my latest manner of plastic representation caricatures, only because
they are the natural evolution of my former plastic expression which was
consequent with what has been understood by caricature. They are not art,
but simply a graphical and plastic synthesis of the analysis of individuals.
In presenting them to the public I do nothing but return that which I have
taken from the public. These caricatures are not the expression of my physical
self, but the intrinsic expression, as I perceive it, of the individuals themselves.
Marius De Zayas.
