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Boarding Masks
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$9,424
Butterfly – Dreaming of Hope
Chang Im Choi
Painting - 116.8 x 91 x 2.8 cm Painting - 46 x 35.8 x 1.1 inch
$7,629
1 frozen sea bass.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 100.8 x 219.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39.7 x 86.5 x 2 inch
$12,000
Liberté… (Origami)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,244
Under the Banana Tree
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$6,170 $5,245
Rabbits Get Fat in Autumn
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$6,170 $5,245
The Scenery of Coconut Grove
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$6,170 $5,245
Dreams of Birds and Flowers
Janet Gough
Painting - 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,748
Dance of the Butterflies
Janet Gough
Painting - 69 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 27.2 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,075
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
$6,731
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
$17,950
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
$2,355
Lost while hatching #4
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen
Painting - 49 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,808
When we will get wild?
Skaiste Semenike
Painting - 93 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,809
When we will get wild?
Skaiste Semenike
Painting - 93 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,794
Dérèglements épisodiques #2
Hélène Duclos
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$2,805
Disparitions/ Extinctions #1
Hélène Duclos
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$3,366
Le taureau solitaire
Hervé Le Bis
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,029
Savana
Catherine de Kerhor
Sculpture - 167 x 120 x 70 cm Sculpture - 65.7 x 47.2 x 27.6 inch
$68,885
Le Gorille Penseur
Hadrien David
Sculpture - 44 x 29 x 30 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 11.4 x 11.8 inch
$8,751
Pour une poignée de marrons
André Cervera
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1 inch
$9,985
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
$280
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
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
$6,844
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
$13,463
Rippers
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 inch
$337
Red bull
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 41 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.1 inch
$303
Rippers II
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 inch
$337
Tête de Chat
Richard Boigeol
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$13,463 $11,443
L'Éléphant et la Souris
Richard Boigeol
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$16,828
Petite fille au chien
Eugène Bégarat
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$2,356
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.