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Les poissons de couleur
Dany Soyer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,233
At the Zoo
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 35.5 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$792
#670 Soldierfish school
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Print - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$452
The Cat
Marie-Paulette Lagosse
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 12.8 x 0 inch
$848
The Cat
Marie-Paulette Lagosse
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 25.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 x 0 inch
$961
The Cat
Marie-Paulette Lagosse
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 13 x 0 inch
$961
Triptyque au carborundum
Hervé Di Rosa
Print - 140 x 85 x 1 cm Print - 55.1 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$9,386
Les Hespérides L'Insouciance
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 120 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,696
Le Souffle de la Légèreté
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 120 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,696
Arsenic et vieilles dentelles
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
La charge héroïque de la 5éme cavalerie
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
Le désarroi de l'élève Törless
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
Conference of the Birds 6
Yari Ostovany
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 inch
$2,500
Conference of the Birds 17
Yari Ostovany
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
$4,000
Ironman Disney (Edition Rouge)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 22 x 12 x 3 cm Design - 8.7 x 4.7 x 1.2 inch
$339
Ballon Animals
Jeff Koons
Sculpture - 39.2 x 34.9 x 20.9 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 13.7 x 8.2 inch
$39,581
Dreaming rabbit-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 35.5 x 35 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14 x 13.8 x 8.7 inch
$667
Rare Bored Ape Bowie
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,120
Shark Spirit (Aqua Blue Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 14 x 10 x 8 cm Design - 5.5 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
$283
Kong Spirit (Pink Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 10 x 5 cm Design - 5.1 x 3.9 x 2 inch
$452
Kong spirit (Pink Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 10 x 5 cm Design - 5.1 x 3.9 x 2 inch
$452
Bronzen Knuffel VI (Stuffed animal VI)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 33 x 20 x 12 cm Sculpture - 13 x 7.9 x 4.7 inch
$1,555
Rhino Danseur Bronze 1/8
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 45 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$6,672
Les Protecteurs Affolés
Amor de Agua
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$905
Hippopotamus
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 43 x 70 x 25 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 27.6 x 9.8 inch
$17,200 $15,480
Orange Funny Dragon I
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 22.5 x 17 x 13 cm Sculpture - 8.9 x 6.7 x 5.1 inch
$582
Gaulle : la danse des menhirs - série Bande dessinée
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
La mouette - série bord de mer
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$588
Lion and two cubs
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 25 x 43 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 16.9 x 6.3 inch
$5,089
Birds of the Mythical Woods
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 120 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.7 inch
$1,301
The Tenderness Of Shulamite
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 180 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,750
La romancière et ses chats
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$430
Arabian horse
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Ultimate freedom
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,827
Giraffe and his greyhound
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 62 x 33 x 15 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 13 x 5.9 inch
$4,637
A bear named Sisyphus
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 38 x 29 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15 x 11.4 x 4.7 inch
$4,297
In the Arena or My Favourite Bull
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 4.7 inch
$4,750
La petite merveille ou à iris / A little wonder
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 30 x 18 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.1 x 5.9 inch
$3,958
Le chat et sa maitresse
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$317
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.