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Summer's Glory
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,650
Grace and power under pressure (Green)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 46 x 61 cm Print - 18.1 x 24 inch
$622
A Brand New Day Edition
Sumit Mehndiratta
Print - 53 x 76 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$792
Les toutous de la rue Taylor
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$339
Coral Sea reeffish patterns
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$850
Coral Sea Conservation Underwater
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 38 x 0.1 inch
$980
Riding the Wind
Anthony Horth
Photography - 50.8 x 71.1 x 1 cm Photography - 20 x 28 x 0.4 inch
$750
Cloned gold Penguin with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 148 x 65 x 77 cm Sculpture - 58.3 x 25.6 x 30.3 inch
$13,571
Anatomical study of the horse
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 36 x 43 x 12 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 16.9 x 4.7 inch
$4,959
Sinosaurusopteryx Prima
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 31 x 19 x 2 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,929
Wild trip
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$464
Vache Watusi
Salfo Dermé (Yabré)
Sculpture - 18 x 26 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 10.2 x 3.9 inch
$1,131
San Francisco Golden Bridge
Vianney
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
Margot Endormie
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 21.5 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 11.4 inch
$565
White butterfly, bronze stripe
Svetlana Martin
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$848
Small Stainless Steel Bear 'Grace'
Irena Tone
Sculpture - 20.5 x 13.5 x 16 cm Sculpture - 8.1 x 5.3 x 6.3 inch
$735
Carter Visiting Rothko...
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 60 x 45 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,100
Mélisande lost her love Pelléas
Catherine Clare
Print - 77 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 30.3 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$662
OMO: Untitled 44
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,650
Grace and Power Under Pressure (Blue)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 46 x 61 x 0.5 cm Print - 18.1 x 24 x 0.2 inch
$509
Panthère miniature Born Wild
Richard Orlinski
Design - 3.3 x 8.8 x 2.2 cm Design - 1.3 x 3.5 x 0.9 inch
$667
Bonheur perpétuel... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$679
Royal Selangor Arabesque Golden 400%
Bearbrick
Design - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Design - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$5,089
1985 Oiseau Bird Saint John Perse
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 28 x 38 x 0.5 cm Print - 11 x 15 x 0.2 inch
$1,074
Pand'ours pop art Moncler
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$995
Va, vis et reviens !
Antoine Josse
Painting - 60 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,071
Two elephants entwined
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 11 x 12 x 9 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 4.7 x 3.5 inch
$1,923
Run there fast !
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 13 x 5.5 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 2.2 x 3.7 inch
$1,357
Ours popart Batman
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 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.