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‘My Nurse’ by Meret Oppenheim (1936) Fetishistic and bizarre, this work suggests bondage and sexual domination. Using real found objects, the artist has removed the dimension of craft and apparent artistry from this sculpture, thereby rendering it disturbingly realistic and subversive.
Dangerous Liaisons by Rene Magritte We see the female body, not as a cohesive whole but fragmented and fractured. Through the painting experience, the body loses its integrity, relinquishing its inner cohesion and taking on a fragmentary appearance. In this particular case, Magritte is further demonstrating that liaisons are always dangerous in painting, since the perspective of the artist, the covetous gaze with which he looks at the body of his model, also plays a role for the work. This interpretation reminds me of Joan Jonas’ piece ‘Mirror Check II’
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.  —Andre Breton
Venus de Milo with Drawers - Salvador Dali (1936) Dali: “The only difference between the immortal Greece and contemporary times is Sigmund Freud, who discovered that the human body, purely platonic at the Greece epoch, nowadays is full of secret drawers that only the psychoanalysis is capable to open”
Woman with Drawers - Salvador Dali (1936) The insignia on the painting says as follows” Dali paints “the invisible from nature”. “Disturbing images” “The spiderworms of orchestras” “Saliva Sofas”
cavetocanvas: Alexander Calder, Portrait of a Man, c. 1928
Alexander Calder with his sculptures ‘Edgar Varese’ and ‘Untitled’ in 1963
“When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.” - Milan Kundera Remy Duval - Man Ray (1930)
Je ne vois pas la femme cachée dans la forêt, in La Révolution surréaliste, Paris, n°12, 15 décembre 1929 -Andre Breton