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.
Save your search and find it in your favorites
Save your search to find it quickly
Saved search
Your search is accessible from the favorites tab > My favorite searches
Unsaved search
A problem occurred
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
$894
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
$894
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
$894
Everyday Life - Follow your Dreams
Mr Brainwash
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 cm Painting - 30 x 22 inch
Sold
Cloned Griffon Bruxellois with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 7.1 inch
$1,669
Summer Day
Vahag Hamalbashyan
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,384 $2,146
Cloned Marmot with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 36 x 26 x 20 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 10.2 x 7.9 inch
$6,557
Piaf Bleu turquoise laqué
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$346
Para que los cocodrilos duerman en largas filas
Josep Guinovart
Print - 47 x 49 cm Print - 18.5 x 19.3 inch
$477
Poulette
César Baldaccini
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$5,365
Souvenirs de l'été (métal)
Albena Vatcheva
Design - 76 x 76 x 0.16 cm Design - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$984 $935
Bouledogue Français
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$651 $619
Léopard assis
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 90 x 55 x 40 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 21.7 x 15.7 inch
$33,380
Kali Yerg (old Armenian song) by Komitas
Zhora Gasparyan
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,669 $1,502
Panthère sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 33 x 63 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13 x 24.8 x 7.9 inch
$19,074
Chat à sa toilette
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 68 x 32 x 27 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 12.6 x 10.6 inch
Sold
Pélican au grand bec
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 5.9 inch
$2,682
Échec à César (2/5)
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 31.5 x 18 x 18 cm Sculpture - 12.4 x 7.1 x 7.1 inch
$4,053
Some 'Fish Can' & some 'Fish Can't'
Art Grafts
Photography - 30.5 x 38.1 cm Photography - 12 x 15 inch
$596
Toro mosaïque multicolore
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 75 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
$5,722
Struzzo Rubik
Stefano Bombardieri
Sculpture - 58 x 40 x 21 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 15.7 x 8.3 inch
$32,187
Seabirds : Connection
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$596 $417
Fishes on Dishes - Two Prints
Art Grafts
Photography - 30.5 x 38.1 cm Photography - 12 x 15 inch
$805
