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My Favourite Horse
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 21 x 23.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 9.3 x 3.1 inch
$4,410
Anonyme III
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$611
D'après La Joconde de Léonard de Vinci
Françoise Leblond
Painting - 81 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,653
La danseuse étoile
Françoise Leblond
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,494
Sans titre, bajo el mismo mar
Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$509
Mandoni a cavall
Ferran Cartes Yerro
Sculpture - 27 x 27 x 6 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.6 x 2.4 inch
$396
Feel the blue II
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 123 x 98 x 4 cm Painting - 48.4 x 38.6 x 1.6 inch
$11,987
Cheval Cubiste de Guernica Grand Fonte du Bronze
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 56 x 25 x 20 cm Sculpture - 22 x 9.8 x 7.9 inch
$5,202
Protect me ! / 5
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 75 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,809
Protect me ! / 3
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,809
Protect me ! / 2
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 63 x 75 x 4 cm Painting - 24.8 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
$905
Tropical Coral Reef Underwater painting was made underwater at the depth of 8 meters
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,262
Cerf en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 275 x 140 x 200 cm Sculpture - 108.3 x 55.1 x 78.7 inch
$4,863
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
$848
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
$848
Infusion
João Almeida (xUEkA)
Painting - 130 x 195 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.6 inch
$11,309
Intellect
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 88.9 x 98 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35 x 38.6 x 0.2 inch
$3,000
A veces se nos olvida
Richard García
Painting - 170 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,692
Quiero, quiero, quiero
Richard García
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,457
Lo mejor es despertarse sin alarma
Richard García
Painting - 120 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$9,692
Verde era el silencio
Richard García
Painting - 130 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$10,008
Amigos para siempre
Richard García
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$5,824
Poco más que añadir
Richard García
Painting - 140 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$8,075
What is your story?
Richard García
Painting - 170 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 66.9 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$9,692
True stories of the Middle East
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 168 x 192 x 5 cm Painting - 66.1 x 75.6 x 2 inch
$10,743
Le chasse mouche
François Marquet
Sculpture - 30 x 34 x 13 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13.4 x 5.1 inch
$475
Roses and bandits
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
Blue & Green Sheep
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inch
$1,400
I have a robin on my head
Catherine Clare
Sculpture - 32 x 18 x 22 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.1 x 8.7 inch
$1,074
Homme sous la lampe
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$2,262
Tigre
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 85 x 170 x 40 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 66.9 x 15.7 inch
$90,471
Piaf Noir à picots argent
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 17 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
$452
A Mysterious Horse - A tribute to the artist Uri Reisman
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,700
Butterfly Park 11
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 65 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,036
Butterfly Park 10
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 65 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,036
Cosmic Butterflies
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 28 x 94 x 4 cm Sculpture - 11 x 37 x 1.6 inch
$1,640
Butterfly Park 9
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 65 x 65 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 25.6 x 2 inch
$1,979
Butterfly Park 8
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 65 x 65 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 25.6 x 2 inch
$1,979
Butterflies Park 6
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 63.5 x 63.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 2 inch
$1,979
A Brand New Day
Sumit Mehndiratta
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.01 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,187
Swarovski panther
Yves & Yulia Pires
Sculpture - 24 x 67 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 26.4 x 6.3 inch
$16,963
Sunny Day Treescape
Sumit Mehndiratta
Print - 103 x 68 x 0.5 cm Print - 40.6 x 26.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,131
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.