Interpreting art comes as a complex and multilateral experience that embodies personal perceptions and emotions evoked by a certain artwork, thereby being quite subjective experience and at the same time highly fascinating one. This essay aims to review and analyze an essay by Rick Moody, written as an attempt to get a better insight into the art piece of Gregory Crewdson.
In his essay, Rick Moody introduces his readers with the art of Gregory Crewdson, a highly interesting and creative photographer. Rick Moody describes Crewdson՚s influences of the photographer, connecting his life experiences and memories into a coherent story. According to him, the photographs incorporate a wide range of meanings, as well as express and evoke a great number of emotions: “anxiety about malevolent wildlife, a fear of the rural as well as furious affection for its rawness, a hatred of culture but an almost minimalist love for its repetitions and simplicities, the imposition of law on the chaotic” (Moody). This, in turn, provides the readers with a deeper insight and better comprehension of the artist’s photography project called “Twillight”.
Rick Moody is highly descriptive and occasionally metaphorical and figurative in his essay. The author approaches the notion of twilight with deep contemplations about it: “as day merges into night, twilight is a time when the living world becomes imbued with symbolism, when nature colludes in the capture of hidden meaning” (Moody) – he claims. Thereby it is apparent that twilight often appears to be somehow transcendental and symbolical, associated with transition, the past, with something which impends, hangs on and haunts, attracting and drawing in. So are the Crewdson՚s photographs – they challenge and lure, impulsing its readers to think, analyze, and reflect.
Works cited
Moody, Rick. “Made in the Shade”. The Guardian,
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/apr/06/weekend7.weekend4. Accessed
