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Ours en équilibre Pop Art Brillant
André Gacko
Sculpture - 86 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 33.9 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$4,360
Morning of the paradise bird sirin
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 140 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$6,742
Panthère noire
Steve Chaudanson
Sculpture - 102.9 x 230 x 62.5 cm Sculpture - 40.5 x 90.6 x 24.6 inch
$56,184
Boarding Masks
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$9,439
Rabbits Get Fat in Autumn
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$6,180
The Scenery of Coconut Grove
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$6,180
Dreams of Birds and Flowers
Janet Gough
Painting - 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,746
Dance of the Butterflies
Janet Gough
Painting - 69 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 27.2 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,073
Little Bird and Orange
Janet Gough
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,420
Thin Space, Spring Essence
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 58 x 58 x 2.5 cm Painting - 22.8 x 22.8 x 1 inch
$6,742
Soft Focus Male Nude 2
Maxwell Stevens
Painting - 131 x 105 x 5.5 cm Painting - 51.6 x 41.3 x 2.2 inch
$17,979
From Wastes of Scrub and Nothing Came
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2.4 inch
$2,354
Lost while hatching #4
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen
Painting - 49 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,813
Chef and fish
Shine Huang
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$2,400
When we will get wild?
Skaiste Semenike
Painting - 93 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,814
When we will get wild?
Skaiste Semenike
Painting - 93 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,798
Fantasy Jeju Island, Garden
Shin Seung-Hun
Painting - 112 x 145.5 x 5 cm Painting - 44.1 x 57.3 x 2 inch
$10,113
Fantasy Jeju Island, Happiness Journey
Shin Seung-Hun
Painting - 163 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 64.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$11,237
Le taureau solitaire
Hervé Le Bis
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,034
Le Gorille Penseur
Hadrien David
Sculpture - 44 x 29 x 30 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 11.4 x 11.8 inch
$8,765
Pour une poignée de marrons
André Cervera
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1 inch
$10,001
The two starlings
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$523
Les oiseaux de Kandinsky II
Laurent Perbos
Print - 66 x 50.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 26 x 19.9 x 0.1 inch
$281
Declaring Independence
Rod Cusic
Painting - 124.5 x 154.9 x 7.6 cm Painting - 49 x 61 x 3 inch
$3,500
La palombe qui vole
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 inch
$101 $91
Picasso et Son Chien Perro
Caroline St-Pierre
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,430
Sortie en Mer
Maïté Martinez
Sculpture - 18.5 x 32 x 35 cm Sculpture - 7.3 x 12.6 x 13.8 inch
$6,854
9 April Fishes - Meeting
Christian Jodin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$444
THE UNITED PANDASAN : SPECTRAL SYMMETRY BLACK & ORANGE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 55 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
$13,484
L'Éléphant et la Souris
Richard Boigeol
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$16,855
Petite fille au chien
Eugène Bégarat
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$2,360
Yellow Butterfly in Summer
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$331
White Noise
Chien Hua Huang
Photography - 75 x 75 x 4 cm Photography - 29.5 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,776
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.