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Digital colour coupler print mounted on aluminium. Signed 'Gregory Crewdson' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse). Untitled (Ray of Light) by Gregory Crewdson, created in 2001, is a cinematic digital colour coupler print that captures a moment of eerie suburban stillness disrupted by a single, intense beam of light. Set in a quiet neighborhood at twilight, the composition reveals rows of modest houses and neatly stacked lumber, all rendered with Crewdson’s trademark hyperreal precision. The dramatic shaft of light piercing diagonally across the scene evokes themes of surveillance, divine intervention, or extraterrestrial presence, adding psychological tension to the ordinary. As with much of Crewdson’s work, the image blurs the boundary between photography and staged narrative cinema.
Untitled (Ray of Light), 2001
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Digital colour coupler print mounted on aluminium. Signed 'Gregory Crewdson' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse). Untitled (Ray of Light) by Gregory Crewdson, created in 2001, is a cinematic digital colour coupler print that captures a moment of eerie suburban stillness disrupted by a single, intense beam of light. Set in a quiet neighborhood at twilight, the composition reveals rows of modest houses and neatly stacked lumber, all rendered with Crewdson’s trademark hyperreal precision. The dramatic shaft of light piercing diagonally across the scene evokes themes of surveillance, divine intervention, or extraterrestrial presence, adding psychological tension to the ordinary. As with much of Crewdson’s work, the image blurs the boundary between photography and staged narrative cinema.
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What is Surrealism?
Surrealism began in the 1920s as an art and literary movement with the goal of revealing the unconscious mind and unleashing the imagination by exploring unusual and dream-like imagery. Influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis, Surrealist artists and writers sought to bring the unconscious into rational life, blurring the lines between reality and dreams. The movement aimed to challenge conventional perceptions and express the irrational aspects of the human experience.
