Magritte, Dali, De Chirico, Horst, Lachapelle, McQueen.... etc.
Fashion
The designers, the models, the shows and of course, the clothes
Yes sorry for that. I guess what it means to me is making something totaly un expected come together, bending shapes and forms in to situations that you leat expect, changing lighting to confuse,, a lot, or all of surealisism, is a play on realism and in a lot of cases adding a lot of humer.
Salador Dali seemed to be taking a joke on the world around him, and bending and twisting photo realism to create great works of art and also add humer that makes you think about objects, people, and all things bright and beautifull.
The thought behind a lot of it is mind boggling,and makes you wonder how they came up with the idea in the first place, take a look at the photography of Duain Micheals in America.
Very clever photography story boarding, or is it? The consept might have been strait forward for him when putting pictures within pictures creating the extended mirror effect, but in order for another to re create it, it becomes a complicated process, is this how we look at art in general, interesting.
You are right I guess, people will allways try and work the art out from a diffrent dimension or consept to what the artists did and possibly make it more complicated in the thought process,as did with Duane Micheals work.
As mentined there are not many photographers who make you think behind the process of there ideas and stretch the mind in all angles but Duanes does that brilliantly, and is quite poetic and soft.
He must be quite old by now.
geee...earnestly that's a pretty amplified term.
to make it short; for me it's fabrics interseasons -"LODGE"
for example.
accidentaly setting your house on fire...then days later tired and exhausted fallimg asleep on the london tube system...and waking up with a jolt...looking out the window to see the tube station sign....BURNT OAK.