Victor Brauner is not so well known today though he was a great influence on the style. He was born in Romania in the early years of the20th century. In 1930, fearing the rise of Fascism in Romania he came to Paris, met Yves Tanguy and became part of the surrealist group. His paintings from the 1930s are a surrealist tour-de-force, articulating a style that was very... In 1937 he painted The City I dream in which he takes us into a De Chirico-inspired cityscape, complete with distorted perspective. The buildings in his city are large, out of scale, forms derived from common objects, a shoe, a female torso, a hand, a foot and a sculpted head. This could have been a rather uninteresting work but for his depiction of the uniformed figure, like a military bandmaster, standing in front of the white cube and gesturing towards the city buildings. This immediately engages us as viewer and providing us with a focus. There is no need for a narrative. (http://surrealism.website/Brauner.html)