Will Cotton's candy art
by Nick Vagnoni (Subscribe to Nick Vagnoni's posts)
Posted Jan 13th 2006 12:08PM
Filed under: Chocolate, Candy, Newspapers

I recently became acquainted with the paintings of
Will
Cotton. I'll be up-front here and tell you that I don't really have the visual art background to say anything too
insightful about Cotton's work. I could probably venture as far as saying that it reminds me of a combination of
Maxfield Parrish and Willie Wonka. Cotton paints sticky-sweet landscapes of candy and chocolate, often inhabited by
alluring female figures in various states of repose. A
recent New York Times article followed Cotton
to Paris as he sought inspiration from a famous macaroon maker. "I'm interested in depicting an imagined utopia, a
place that's only about pleasure," Cotton told the Times. Props to anyone to can work
Zebra Cakes into that vision.
Tags: artist, candy, chocolate, female models, landscape, painting, sweets, will cotton, WillCotton
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