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Will Cotton [1965-0] American

Rank: 103
Artist

Will Cotton is an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Will Cotton lives and works in New York City.

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People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.		101
In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.		102
Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.		103
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.		104
The goal of art-making in general is communication.	Communication	105
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.		106
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.		107
There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.		108

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