Will Cotton Mixed Media Painting "La Jeune Femme"
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Will Cotton (American, born 1965)
La Jeune Femme
Mixed media painting on canvas
Signed “Cotton” to lower left
Contemporary American artist Will Cotton was born in Massachusetts in 1965 and raised in upstate New York. He completed his BFA at Cooper Union and continues to live and work in New York City. His widely-known iconography of nude women amongst candy sets first started to develop in the 90s. He began with an interest in consumer culture, creating art using elements of tv and print advertisements to play with the concept of material desire. After 2002, his paintings also incorporated nude or semi-nude women in pin-up-inspired poses. Conflating female sexuality with sweets and candy allows Cotton to elevate the concepts of desire, gluttony, and appetite. He notes the artists François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard as influences in his compositions, which significantly draw on the Roccoco manner of voluptuous and idyllic, pastel scenes of leisure. Upon realizing his complete visual aesthetics, Cotton has received commissions from various facets of the art industry such as choreography and performance art, set installations for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and an editorial spread in New York Magazine. Cotton’s most notable work and collaboration, however, came from the music industry when, in 2010, pop singer Katy Perry approached the artist with the offer of art direction for her single California Gurls. The music video is a video amalgamation of the artist’s oeuvre featuring the singer laying in pin-up style amongst cotton candy clouds. For this collaboration, Cotton also painted his work Cotton Candy Katy (2010). Will Cotton’s art has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Seattle Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
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Condition
- abrasions and residues throughout; wear to edges and corners.
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ITMGC88733