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Le grand échange
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 46 x 33 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$2,580
Bestiole incertaine
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 33 x 41 x 1 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,468
Cheval volutes de métal
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 100 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
$10,658
A carefree world
Igor Shulman
Painting - 119.9 x 79.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.4 x 2 inch
$4,800
Attelage à Chantilly
Gérard Pamboujian
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$3,366
Girl, Boy and Bird
Yosl Bergner
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$7,900
Autruche curieuse
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 19.5 x 21 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.7 x 8.3 x 3.9 inch
$5,609
Autruche timide
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 21.5 x 19.5 x 9 cm Sculpture - 8.5 x 7.7 x 3.5 inch
$5,609
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$426
La révérence d'un Dieu (3/8)
Dominique Mückli
Sculpture - 146 x 100 x 45 cm Sculpture - 57.5 x 39.4 x 17.7 inch
$43,754
Egg, from the Immaculate series.
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 127 x 88.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 50 x 35 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
L'anguille et l'araignée de la baie
Catherine Bessin
Painting - 21 x 34 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 13.4 x 0 inch
$337
Le retour de la jument verte
Catherine Bessin
Painting - 22 x 34 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.7 x 13.4 x 0 inch
$337
La visite, région d’Abéché, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$729
Course hippique, N’Djamena, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$729
Mors, ego sum motis. Vocor agnis sum leo fortis
Miguel Angel Sanchez
Photography - 100 x 66 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.4 inch
$785
Black panther Graffiti - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
$898
Black panther Vert métal - statue résine pop art street art (4)
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
$898
Black panther Blanc ivoire alpha - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
$898
Black panther CWMB alpha - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
$898
Black panther ORBO alpha - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
$898
Black panther GRVW alpha - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
$898
Cosmopolita V
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$9,087
Cirque du jus de betterave
Edward Zelinsky
Painting - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.8 cm Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.3 inch
$325
Butterfly n°1240 - Résurection
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
Seigneur de l'Arctique
Christine Pultz
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,609
Divination with a cup of coffee
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$7,000
Souffle de vie
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$10,097
Paris, Louvre Passage Richelieu
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$168
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.