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El futuro ha llegado
Richard García
Painting - 47 x 38 x 1 cm Painting - 18.5 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$1,773
No sé de dónde vienen los aullidos
Richard García
Painting - 47 x 38 x 1 cm Painting - 18.5 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$1,773
Noir Sur Noir Chas Espoir
Chanoir
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,824
L'échapée sauvage
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,488
Bird III
Vincent Champion-Ercoli
Sculpture - 103 x 40 x 36 cm Sculpture - 40.6 x 15.7 x 14.2 inch
$21,316
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Panthéon
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$202
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Montmartre
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$202
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Grand Palais
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$202
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Fenêtre sur Ville
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$202
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Fenêtre sur Tour
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$202
My friends in Hawaii (Boo enjoys swimming)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
My friends in Hawaii (Maitai)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
My friends in Hawaii (Chip is sitting on the top)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
My friends in Hawaii (Tori on kayaking)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
My friends in Hawaii (Santiago loves to paddle)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
My friends in hawaii (Teddy in ab slider)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
My friends in Hawaii (Kong is ready to surf)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
My friends in Hawaii (Teddy gets a new car)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
My friends in Hawaii (Ziggy in troble)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
Els gossos també somien
Salvador de Batlle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,244
The Spirit of Love
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,141
Le Majestueux; Purple feathers
Clo
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$3,500
Sans titre, bajo el mismo mar
Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$505
Triptyque - Le peuple des mirages
Agathe David
Painting - 94 x 143 x 1 cm Painting - 37 x 56.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,814
Modern Borrowed Scenery Daiso 2
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,029
Modern Borrowed Scenery DAISO
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,029
Centauros III
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
$5,500
Juste un Bisou
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 40.6 x 46.5 x 0.5 cm Photography - 16 x 18.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,600
Beautiful Life
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,132
Rise and Shine
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,132
Bird II
Vincent Champion-Ercoli
Sculpture - 35.5 x 10.5 x 10 cm Sculpture - 14 x 4.1 x 3.9 inch
$3,029
Celestial Dreamer - JALAL TOUFIC'S RADICAL CLOSURE
Manar Ali Hassan
Print - 35 x 25 x 1 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$600
Majestic nishikigoi in metal splendor : aqueous grandeur scarlet
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 75 x 100 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.5 x 39.4 inch
$26,926
Majestic nishikigoi in metal splendor : aqueous grandeur silver
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 75 x 100 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.5 x 39.4 inch
$26,926
Bosc verd i Guspirus
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,066
Oiseau vertical en jaune et bleu
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$505
Trilogy Samuraicat Blu, Sumocat Orange, Urbancat Pink : Feline Odyssey
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 28 x 73 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11 x 28.7 x 7.9 inch
$19,072
The pigeon man
Mourad Cherifi
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.02 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,515
Trust me
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,683 $1,346
Celestial Symphony
Maria Matveyeva
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,693
Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.