Cotton #2 - Cotton Bolls

by Eloise Schneider Mote

Title

Cotton #2 - Cotton Bolls

Artist

Eloise Schneider Mote

Medium

Painting - Acrylic Impasto (palette Knife) - Available On Canvas, Rolled Print, Framed Print, Cards

Description

Americana at its best, indicative of history as well as present day, Cotton #2 is a colorful, imaginative and impressionist rendering of cotton plants as they intertwine and reach for the southern sun. Delicate pink flowers grow into cotton bolls ready to be picked. A Southern crop of sustenance, the cotton plant produces spring/summer, and then again in the fall. This piece is done in the impasto style where colors are laid on layer by layer with a palette knife, giving it texture, depth, and dimension. Cotton #2 is preceded by its companion piece Cotton #1, also offered on FineArtAmerica.
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I've lived in the south all my life: Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi. The cotton fields line the roads everywhere. Cotton is still "King" (next to Elvis, of course!) and an agricultural icon for the southern states.
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We lived in Houston for a while - the 4th largest city in the United States - and even there, it was only a short trip outside the city and suburbs to fields of white.
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It is important that we support our farmers - those men and women that provide the bane of cotton products. I, for one, love the feel and weight of a cotton sundress to wear as I play at the beach or plant sunflowers in the back yard outside our 1930s house. Yes, I love modern amenities and I wouldn't trade my microwave in on a wooden stove by any means, but I am drawn to the cotton fields - the history that began in the field and progressed to that fabulous fabric that swings on my body, light and cool in the hot summer sun. For me, the cotton bolls are vintage America, the simple beginnings of what became a great industry. It is also a reminder of who we can still become -
entrepreneurs of internet companies and designers of equipment for future generations. In every great country, there was a historic beginning that served as the foundation for future growth.
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For me - just an old southern girl - cotton is a garden, a tribute to beauty in unexpected places.

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October 27th, 2012

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