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Image of Louis the Cruel

Louis the Cruel
United States Print

2006
33 1/2 x 32 3/4 in. (85.09 x 83.19 cm)

Lewis deSoto (San Bernardino, California, 1954 - )

Object Type: Print
Creation Place: North America, United States, California
Medium and Support: K3 (Epson) pigmented inks on rag paper
Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and William Hyland, Monterey, California
Accession Number: 2010.17

Exhibition


Bookish
, September 25, 2011 - January 15, 2012, 2nd Floor, South Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

SJMA Label Text


Bookish (2011-2012)

Lewis deSoto took conceptual inspiration from literature in his series “KLS” based on Hermann Hesse’s 1919 novella Klingsor’s Last Summer (which deSoto ritually reads every summer). The novella details the final summer in the life of a forty-two-year-old German painter, Klingsor. Hesse vividly decribed the colors in Klingsor’s painting and the setting of the story, as well as his unsettled emotional states and desires. DeSoto entered each of Hesse’s color descriptions into an Internet search engine; the images he found are sampled through an image processing program and the result is one synthesized hue. DeSoto arranged the colors from each chapter in concentric circles (beginning in the center) in the order they appear in the narrative, thus making each image an abstract visual manifestation of a chapter in the novella.

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