Chloe Wise is a Canadian artist whose works relates to the female form and its often sexualised portrayal within art history to the consumption of food, which tends to be advertised in a sensual way (which she finds comedic).

• In the past (particularly Preraphaelites), paintings of women looking away posed elegantly without “knowledge” – like a still life of fruit of family heirloom
• There’s a link of fruit with fertility
• Also links to the luxury/wealth/abundance of what the women pose with in the paintings
• Links between fruit and beauty – where it is momentary and is captured before it will wilt and decay
• Food advertisements will play onto to the viewer’s desire, it’ll be slow motion & erotic in its movement with carnal desires played into
• Food & sex are similarly visually, description of food e.g sinful, decadent ooze of cake, moist layers
• Stickiness and shininess denote desire, sweaty and sexy (implicates this in the painting, makes you wonder which is the subject and which is the object)