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Le manteau rouge
Victorine Follana
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,244
Aquamarine Ocean
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 51 x 51 x 3 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,036
Healing Greenland, Chunja & the dog
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,131
Août, oiseau dans son nid
Georges Braque
Print - 37 x 47.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 14.6 x 18.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,714
Three sisters. Faith, Hope, Love. Birds
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,144
With Faith, Hope and Love for Ukraine
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,144
Red bird. Flower of hope
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,373
In search of a life path. Fish
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,144
Healing Greenland, Chunja & The Tiger
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,131
Healing Greenland, Chunja and The Monkey Brothers
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,131
Hommage à Lalanne
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 88 x 65 x 38 cm Sculpture - 34.6 x 25.6 x 15 inch
$18,094
Flying Apsaras Crossing Mountains
Qing-Yan Li
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$1,866
Star Jewelry, I am that I am
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 31.8 x 41 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.5 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,583
Marlin Azul "Deepwater"
Philippe Dias
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,866
Carnaval des animaux
Patrick Moya
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,696
Stand appart from the crowd
Nite Owl
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,018
L'évêque - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 80 x 30 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,900
Couple II - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,244
Coral Sea Conservation Diving Adventure
Anthony Horth
Photography - 24 x 38 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 15 x 0 inch
$980
The eye of the earth
Shulan Wang
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,357
Pink Floyd ou Flamants rose
Jez Baille Bosio
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,036
Coco - série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,108
Grand Duc aux chardons - série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,108
Ours blanc - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,059
Spirit of the West
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.04 inch
$4,000
La gourmandise et ses conséquences
Frieda Mouroum
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$679
Conversation d'oiseaux
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 30 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$792
Girl with a Lamb
David Popiashvili
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,600
Poisson voyageur
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,131
Galichromie
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 120 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,262
Hippopotamus amphibius 02
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,470
Hippopotamus amphibius 01
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,470
Cheval de Przewalski 02
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 70 x 105 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 inch
$1,583
Tigresse de l'Amour 01
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 80 x 74 cm Photography - 31.5 x 29.1 inch
$1,357
Mouton migrateur
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$2,262
Louise at the zoo, version 2
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 28 x 46 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11 x 18.1 x 6.7 inch
$6,559
Ink album (Lizard)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$339
Malanka / Le jour de Malanka
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 50 x 30 x 23 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 11.8 x 9.1 inch
$7,690
Balancing on the ice floe
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 78 x 24 x 19 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 9.4 x 7.5 inch
$8,142
Elephant jump !
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 69 x 44 x 40 cm Sculpture - 27.2 x 17.3 x 15.7 inch
$10,743
Surfing in the falklands
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 53 x 41 x 23 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 16.1 x 9.1 inch
$6,672
En Forêt de Hez - Laie et Marcassins
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 25 x 34 x 26 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 13.4 x 10.2 inch
$13,005
Big horn to horn
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 92 x 74 x 48 cm Sculpture - 36.2 x 29.1 x 18.9 inch
$36,189
Camargue 1 - Paysage abstrait et cheval
Brigitte Darras dite Bivan
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,414
L'Envol de l'aigrette - Paysage marin et abstraction
Brigitte Darras dite Bivan
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,414
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.