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Retour de chasse au vase bleu
Charles Monnier
Painting - 73 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,110
Et Dieu créa le cheval
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 40 x 24 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.4 x 11.8 inch
$15,658
Hommage à Léonard de Vinci
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 60 x 60 x 50 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$21,810
Nestor du domaine
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 42 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
$12,303
Ahmed et Jo
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$334
Winter Robin I
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$369 $332
Winter Robin II
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$369
I Brought You the Blessing of Love
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,349
La gardienne de mon coeur
Agnès Robin
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 inch
$1,710
Homar'ie si tu savais
Christopher Lecoutre
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$727
Capricorno, serie Segni zodiacali
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 19 x 19 x 0.2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
$87 $75
Una lotta perpetua
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 33 x 27 x 0.4 cm Painting - 13 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
$334
Blue parrot. Fun and lightness.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$559
Chevaux et renards celtiques - Composition papiers
Frédérique Hatier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$503
En Compagnie
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 48 x 36 x 4 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,033
Gummy bear color block - Yellow & fucsia
Gabriela Alejandra Rivera
Sculpture - 25 x 12 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.7 x 3.5 inch
$783
Splashed gummy bear - red
Gabriela Alejandra Rivera
Sculpture - 25 x 12 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.7 x 3.5 inch
$839
Lièvre fleuri
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 34 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
$1,342
Lièvre au jardin
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 36.5 x 35 x 17 cm Sculpture - 14.4 x 13.8 x 6.7 inch
$1,342
The latent desire
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,500
Still life with bird and lamp
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$450
Bullfinch on a rowan branch
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$650
Unwanted Attention
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
$760
Pausing on the Trail
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
$760
Breaking The Surface
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
$760
All the beautiful rides
Amy Bernays
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.5 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.6 inch
$660
Danse des flamants roses
Jean-Jacques Abieniste
Painting - 46 x 38 x 1.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.6 inch
$1,758
La quadrature du cercle
Georges Troubat
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,087
Fragole per tartaruga
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$174
Ours Polaire Lanceur
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 40 x 18 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.1 x 7.1 inch
$503
Perdre ciel et terre
Christos Kalfas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$5,592
Mastino napoletano
Angela Gomes
Sculpture - 110 x 30 x 35 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 11.8 x 13.8 inch
$9,507
Blue Moon Diamond Dust - Bunnies
Hunt Slonem
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 inch
$35,791
Il amenait l'aube dans son sillage
Timothy Archer
Painting - 80 x 120 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$4,809
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.