Surrealism

Surrealism is a 20th century art movement, it was originally developed from psychology and trying to interpret the physical state of the human mind, this is why you would have the art work looking distorted and strange.

For example, Salvador Dali's art piece called 'The persistence of memory', as you can see from the art work below it is very different as in it is more like a dream or fantasy, like its beyond this world, these elements are some of the qualities you would expect in the surrealism movement.

The artist Rene Magritte is another surrealist, his work is more symbolic than other surrealist painters. For example one of his most famous piece or ark work is called 'The Treachery of Images', below you see an oil canvas of a pipe, however, below the pipe it reads 'Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe', in english this would read 'This isn't a pipe' so you could say it a representation of a pipe but its not actually a pipe.