André Kertész, Broken Plate, Paris, 1929

Surrealist's bizarre, dream-like settings can be found, for example, André Kertész' Broken Plate, Paris, 1929 is similarly disconcerting with its unfolding city shattered by a crack and hole in the glass plate through which the scene is viewed.Fragmentation and strange juxtapositions are also prominent in the works, creating unusual dichotomies of strange/familiar, constructed/organic and erotic/grotesque