Video: "Sweet Life" by Will Cotton
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When looking at Will Cotton's photorealistic landscapes, one involuntarily recalls lines from the good old fairy tale about "rivers of milk, jelly banks". Maybe it was they who inspired the artist to create paintings where the houses are made of gingerbread and cookies, the forests are made of chocolate, and the clouds are very much like cotton candy …
Will Cotton began painting his "delicious" paintings over 10 years ago, creating ever more perfect, more thoughtful landscapes made from sugar products of all kinds. His passion for sweets was not limited to landscapes: the artist's canvases also depict attractive women who are usually naked, if you do not take into account their jewelry made from candy, marshmallows or cakes.
Drawing such things seems pretty funny, but even more of everyone is interested in the question: how does Will manage to stay slim? After all, he makes three-dimensional models from real sweets before starting to create his drawings. Probably, not only children, but also adults with a sweet tooth dream of getting into Cotton's studio and biting off a piece of a chocolate tree.
However, Will Cotton paints his paintings primarily in order to clearly demonstrate to us how much attention people pay to food and indulging their appetite in our time. “It seems to me,” says the artist, “that the average American appetite is becoming like … gluttony.” And with these thoughts, Will deliberately overloads his landscapes with sweets, hoping to both attract the viewer and make him feel a sense of disgust, similar to that of overeating candy.
Will Cotton is an American artist. Born in Melrose, Massachusetts, graduated from the New York Academy of Arts and currently lives and works in New York.
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