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Bonding in Open Fields, The Happiness Series: Exploring Inner Joy series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€850
Quand cette terrible famille arrive sur la plage
Gérald Panighi
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€1,500
Bright magical flowers and funny birds
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€800
From the life of birds
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€901
Sumatrae
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,950
Killer whales
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,623
Lion griffon
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 225 x 235 x 240 cm Sculpture - 88.6 x 92.5 x 94.5 inch
€7,220
From the series Ecology of soul and nature V
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
From the series Ecology of soul and nature II
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
He's got a dream too
Angelo Pioppo
Painting - 42 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch
€690
Live Each Day As If It Were Your First
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 55 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
€9,800
Jellyfish coral dream
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 60 x 43 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.9 x 1.2 inch
€875
La physique des particules
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
Tête de corbeau - Série sculpture bois animaux
Matthieu Libault
Sculpture - 24 x 48 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 18.9 x 3.1 inch
€1,875
Path Among the Rocky
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 60 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
€850
Animal Painting #012-0687
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,360
Animal Painting #019-1760
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,360
I will retrieve your phone... (Dolphin)
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 55 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
€4,500
Guardián de la llama de la conciencia
Rocio Villanueva
Photography - 50.8 x 50.8 cm Photography - 20 x 20 inch
€1,200
Cuarto Viaje: Frecuencia 639 HZ
Rocio Villanueva
Photography - 50.8 x 50.8 cm Photography - 20 x 20 inch
€1,200
Primer viaje: Vértice de la proyección interior II
Rocio Villanueva
Photography - 50.8 x 50.8 cm Photography - 20 x 20 inch
€1,200
Primer viaje: Vértice de la proyección interior I
Rocio Villanueva
Photography - 50.8 x 50.8 cm Photography - 20 x 20 inch
€1,200
Segundo Viaje: El portal de los sueños
Rocio Villanueva
Photography - 50.8 x 50.8 cm Photography - 20 x 20 inch
€1,700
Vuelo de pajaro solitario
Rocio Villanueva
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
€1,700
Aus der Serie: Buddhas Lächeln: Eine Ode an die Schönheit Thailands (9)
The opium smoking white elephant
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€400
Aus der Serie: Buddhas Lächeln: Eine Ode an die Schönheit Thailands (6)
The opium smoking white elephant
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€400
Aus der Serie: Buddhas Lächeln: Eine Ode an die Schönheit Thailands (5)
The opium smoking white elephant
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€400
Expectation
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,200
In the rays of the sun
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Wild Kong Invisible Inox
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 62 x 51 x 28 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 20.1 x 11 inch
€46,900
Natura morta con teiera
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 35 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
€390 €332
Dancing jellyfish
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 60 x 42 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,750
You're in the army now
Françoise Sémiramoth
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€2,800
New Found Cockatoo Whisper
Hunt Slonem
Painting - 112 x 193 x 3 cm Painting - 44.1 x 76 x 1.2 inch
€60,000
Cockatoos Whisper Joy
Hunt Slonem
Painting - 127 x 178 x 3 cm Painting - 50 x 70.1 x 1.2 inch
€60,000
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
€180
Surreal composition
Candido Ballester
Painting - 35 x 48 x 0.04 cm Painting - 13.8 x 18.9 x 0 inch
€1,300
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.