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Apaños y remiendos (Fixes and patches)
M. M. Calvo
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 12.2 inch
€900
Jkin chuu ngasundie (animals from earth)
Filogonio Naxín
Painting - 90 x 72 cm Painting - 35.4 x 28.3 inch
€1,350
Baby Bull Dog
Jean-Michel Pradel-Fraysse
Sculpture - 32 x 20 x 18 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.9 x 7.1 inch
€4,500
The voice of the mountain (tjara nindu)
Filogonio Naxín
Print - 45 x 62 cm Print - 17.7 x 24.4 inch
€750
Oeuvre à porter n°01 - Janvier - L'attente
La Robotte
Print - 90 x 90 x 0.2 cm Print - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€290
Toro study
Marc Prat
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 120 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€780
Les Deux Taureaux et une Grenouille
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0 inch
€3,800 €3,230
Dragon Bleu, portrait de Doudou
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
€250
El bosque de los Guspirus
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
€1,350
Imagined destinations, Night (Nuit)
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 36 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€500
Mi torre de Babel acuática
Alfredo Sosabravo
Print - 65 x 77 x 0 cm Print - 25.6 x 30.3 x 0.01 inch
€966
La amiga de los animales
Alfredo Sosabravo
Print - 94 x 72.9 x 0 cm Print - 37 x 28.7 x 0.01 inch
€1,448
Nezahualcoyotl - The First Constructor 4
Francisco Corzas
Print - 49 x 65.5 x 0 cm Print - 19.3 x 25.8 x 0.01 inch
€966
City in Space
Katarzyna Biskupska
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Under the black moon
Katarzyna Biskupska
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,000
Horse riding on the beach
Trayko Popov
Painting - 101 x 72 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 28.3 x 0.2 inch
€1,200
Guspirus en las flores
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€990
Cavalcade
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 20.5 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.1 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
€2,900
Le cheval
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 27.5 x 28 x 11 cm Sculpture - 10.8 x 11 x 4.3 inch
€2,450
La chouette
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 33.5 x 12 x 11.5 cm Sculpture - 13.2 x 4.7 x 4.5 inch
€2,200
Primer PGO – illustration
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 27 x 45 x 0.2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
€560
Nobility
Javier Prieto Meneses
Painting - 59.3 x 79.5 x 2 cm Painting - 23.3 x 31.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Buster Brown and Tige
Brian Nash
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€2,366
Sans titre (Alice)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
Sans titre (tea time)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€750
Funny Pig-bottle stopper
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 5 x 4.5 x 3 cm Sculpture - 2 x 1.8 x 1.2 inch
€220
The Gig
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 4 x 10 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 1.6 x 3.9 x 0 inch
€420
Bird with Long tail 6/25
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 4 x 10 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 3.9 x 1.4 inch
€380
Horses in the mountain
Mario Pascual Cámara
Photography - 42 x 65 cm Photography - 16.5 x 25.6 inch
€1,000
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.