How many people responsible for the more than 31 million hits in seven weeks to a Katy Perry video realize that its chief asset comes from Will Cotton? Those who know he provided the visuals knew it already or dug for it. His name isn’t on the link.
Shot from the video:
Naturally, teen sites are panting, but we can expect more from art writers, right?
Here’s Emma Allen on Artinfo:
When someone calls to tell you that candy-sweet pop star Katy Perry is in pastry-loving painter Will Cotton’s
studio, and will talk to you about the nude portrait she commissioned
from him for the cover of her latest album (“Teenage Dream”), but only
if you get in a cab immediately, and then run through the streets of the
Lower East Side — well, you do it.
A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. Doubtless Perry’s Cotton-fueled sensation has sent legions of pop music art directors into art galleries to find another hit maker. I hope they follow Perry’s excellent example and pay the artist. Giving the artist credit on the product would also be laudable.
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