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Family forever
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 120 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,000
Hacerse preguntas es vivir
Richard García
Painting - 100 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$8,075
Nunca he escuchado el aullido de un lobo
Richard García
Painting - 130 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$10,008
La vie en rouge
SP
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$271
Chemin de rêves
SP
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$96
I'm stronger than you think and even than I think
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,092
Petit ours tagué patineur
Miko-R
Sculpture - 40 x 18 x 26 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.1 x 10.2 inch
$848
Black Head Gull,
Nicholas Robertson
Painting - 20.1 x 25.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 10 x 0.2 inch
$419
Sweet Birds Bearing Wreaths
Mickey Bond
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 1.3 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 0.5 inch
$300
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
Les contraires s'attirent
Clo
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$5,200
War of demons and mystics
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$4,410
Butterfly Park 4
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 63.5 x 63.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 2 inch
$2,036
Butterfly Park 7
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 63.5 x 63.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 2 inch
$1,979
L'hippopotame blanc
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 36 x 55 x 25 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 21.7 x 9.8 inch
$3,280
Cavalier II Bronze
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 57 x 63 x 30 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 24.8 x 11.8 inch
$24,597
Mon adorable chèvre !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 inch
$102
My little pink pig !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 inch
$102
My lucky Rabbit !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$102
Bird II
Vincent Champion-Ercoli
Sculpture - 35.5 x 10.5 x 10 cm Sculpture - 14 x 4.1 x 3.9 inch
$3,053
Laura And Her Cat
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$10,065
Heliconia et Cabezon à tete rouge
Juan Carlos Suarez
Painting - 60 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,262
Portrait de chien
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 17 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 6.7 inch
$735
Black fish in the green lake
Christine Loh
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,428
Sunset with my bibi
Christine Loh
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,428
Protect The Blue Planet
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.5 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.2 inch
$1,006
Le York de Jean-Paul
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 cm Fine Art Drawings - 3.9 x 5.5 inch
$339
Les Petits éléphants assis en équilibre
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 53 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$5,428
Teiss
Youssef Boubekeur
Fine Art Drawings - 129 x 89 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 35 x 2 inch
$8,142
Symphony of Light
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,650
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.