Collective Invention Female Fish Statue by Magritte 6W

The Collective Invention / l'Invention collective was a Surrealist painting completed by Rene Magritte (1935, oil on canvas 73 x 166 cm). This clever artwork is an adaptation of the painting into a statue. It shows a woman's body laying down with a fish as the upper portion of her body. The combination of the human and fish forms is a physical impossibility, only possible in a dream. Surrealism was a 20th century art movement which mixed improbably dreamlike images as a way to challenge a viewer's understanding of the natural world. Magritte describes this work as follows: Collective Invention is the answer to the problem of the sea. On the beach I laid a siren, the top part of whose body is that of a fish, while the bottom part consists of the belly and legs of a woman. Collective Invention Female Fish Statue details: part of the Parastone Museum Collection of collectible figurines made from resin with hand painted details Included color card with image of the original painting and a