Will Cotton's candy art

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Jan 13th 2006 @ 12:08PM

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.

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