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Yuki the young yak (White)
Mark Ryden
Sculpture - 43.2 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm Sculpture - 17 x 12 x 10 inch
$2,036
Buste Jaguar Niveaux De Gris
Mosko
Painting - 40 x 36 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 14.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,979
My kitten is crazy
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 26 x 20 x 12 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.9 x 4.7 inch
$2,601
Le berger
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 75.5 x 56.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 22.2 inch
$11,083
Miniatuur Giraffe
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 53 x 47 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 18.5 x 1.2 inch
$735
Stories Scheherazade Certified XIII
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$215
The last huntsman
Ian Bradshaw
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,120
La Mouche - The Fly
Alex Konahin
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 33 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$2,262
El Color Grana II
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 35 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$215 $162
El Color Grana IV
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 35 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$215 $162
El Color Grana III
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 35 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$215 $162
Grand cheetah allongé
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 67 x 135 x 70 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 53.1 x 27.6 inch
$45,236
Bosc de guspirus en color
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 146 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 57.5 x 1.4 inch
$1,968
Contemporary portrait "It's Cold..."
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,470
Mirror panther on black
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$892
Fly Agaric Fungus and snail
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Piaf Violet brillant
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 17 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
$328
Plexi'Art "Panther #1" (11)
JM Collell
Photography - 100 x 75 x 1.9 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.7 inch
$1,244
Plexi'Art "Panda #1"(10)
JM Collell
Photography - 100 x 75 x 1.9 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.7 inch
$1,244
Plexi'Art " Lion #1 "(9)
JM Collell
Photography - 100 x 75 x 1.9 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.7 inch
$1,244
Baker
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,125
Aurum 12
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 42.5 x 35.5 x 5 cm Painting - 16.7 x 14 x 2 inch
$1,125
Aurum 13
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 42.5 x 35.5 x 5 cm Painting - 16.7 x 14 x 2 inch
$1,125
El tigre y las cabras con instrumento y espejo / le tigre et les chevres avec instrument et miroir
Julio Alonso Yañez
Sculpture - 60 x 23 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 9.1 x 1.4 inch
$2,036
Fille coréenne et chat
Sounya Whang
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,467
Femme coréenne et chat
Sounya Whang
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,459
The bluebird
Blu_451
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 25 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$565
Birds in Summer
Russell Edward Vanecek
Painting - 45.72 x 40.64 x 2.54 cm Painting - 18 x 16 x 1 inch
$2,443
Panthère en marche, monumentale
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 72 x 178 x 30 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 70.1 x 11.8 inch
$56,545
Bouledogue Français
Jean-Jacques Joujon
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 32 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 12.6 inch
$3,958
Lion in the bushes
James Mutisya
Painting - 119 x 117 x 2 cm Painting - 46.9 x 46.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
Terra Incognita - Icare
Guillaume Pépy
Photography - 105 x 70 cm Photography - 41.3 x 27.6 inch
$1,583
Manchots #2/8
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 34 x 36 x 30 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 14.2 x 11.8 inch
$13,005
The Horse and the Dancer
Theodore Stravinsky
Print - 25.4 x 19.1 x 0.2 cm Print - 10 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,583
My heart goes out...
Barbara Kieca
Painting - 110 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,357
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.