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The Strawberry Social
Derek Olson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
€3,219
Master of the Firmament
Bob Arrigo
Painting - 50.8 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€2,300
Fabulous streets of Marmaris
Andrey Chebotaru
Painting - 99.1 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 35 x 1 inch
€3,835
ButifI Were Someone Else, Who Then Would Be Me?
Anna Bukhareva
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 1.2 inch
€3,900
Flore tropicale
Madeleine Colaço
Painting - 123 x 158 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 62.2 x 0.4 inch
€10,000
Your love with a cherry pie
Maria Mikileva
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Arrivée de l'American Circus
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€1,200
Birds Guard II
Tadas Gutauskas TaDas
Sculpture - 19 x 24 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 9.4 x 3.9 inch
€2,400
Magic White: Two Horses
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€4,315
La Matriarche
Claudette Allosio
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
€670
Regard Tigré
Claudette Allosio
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
€670
Parrot bliss
Rinalds Vanadzins
Painting - 89.9 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
€2,541
I also, want to profit
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Painting - 140 x 210 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 82.7 x 2 inch
€10,000
Cows Watching You Cry
Baurjan Aralov
Painting - 180 x 180 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 2 inch
€4,000
White rhino
Aurélie Trabaud
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
€550
Cheval au galop
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€950
Draw the Table-Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,700
Draw a Table-Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,000
Draw the table Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,800
Draw a Table - Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,800
Draw a Table - Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,800
Draw The Table - The Secret Life
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€3,200
Birds of America | May 19 Least Tern 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€350
Birds of America | May 13 June 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€350
Birds of America | Long Build Curlew 3 June 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 20 x 32 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€350
Birds of America | Snowy Egret May 12 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€350
Birds of America | Maryland Yellow Throat April 26 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€350
Amour plasticine
Christian Silvain
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Mass Extinction 6 - In pieces
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 100.1 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,594
Les corbeaux volent sur le dos
Lionel Morateur
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€275
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.