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Oiseau totem d'abondance
Timothy Archer
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$8,142
En souvenir de mon enfance, Calvin & Hobbes
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 inch
$113
Cock-a-doodle-do
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
$339
Fuck, Fuck & Refuck
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 25.6 inch
$339
Taureau Lamborghini
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 180 x 270 x 70 cm Sculpture - 70.9 x 106.3 x 27.6 inch
$6,162
Alpage de l'Alpe du Lauzet, Hautes-Alpes, de la série Sur les chemins du Briançonnais
José Nicolas
Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$565
Birds of the Mythical Woods
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 120 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.7 inch
$1,301
Christmas Tree at the City Hall Square
Elena Lukina
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Panthére en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 90 x 40 x 180 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 15.7 x 70.9 inch
$5,824
Contemporary portrait "Something Warm and Soft"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 75 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.9 inch
$2,827
Urban butterfly 7
Sylvain Lang
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,036 $1,832
Urban butterfly 2 Aporia graffitis
Sylvain Lang
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,036 $1,832
The Weight of Primal Impulse
Brad Sane
Painting - 101 x 76 x 5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 29.9 x 2 inch
$3,268
A Loosely Woven Flock of Rooks
Ruth Thomas
Print - 50 x 25 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,191
Tête de Cheval I
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 29.2 x 15.2 x 33 cm Sculpture - 11.5 x 6 x 13 inch
$13,005
Tea time in Paris with black cat, and Matisse's goldfish
Jiel
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2.2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.9 inch
$2,262
Gina Lollobrigida
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,866
Panda Spirit (Orange Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 11 x 9 cm Design - 5.1 x 4.3 x 3.5 inch
$441
In the lap of your caress
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 204 x 193 x 2 cm Painting - 80.3 x 76 x 0.8 inch
$25,219
Mickey's Pop Art Symphony with Kidrobot
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 60 x 40 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$1,655
Portrait de Taureaux
Jean-Claude Mège
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,402
Portrait de Taureaux
Jean-Claude Mège
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,402
Portrait de Taureaux
Jean-Claude Mège
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,402
Colorful Fish Pond
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,809
Wild Kong Yellow
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 3.5 inch
$4,976
Through nine seas – cover
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 15 x 29 x 0.2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,040
Illustration – Patterned Minim
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 30 x 45.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,323
Sans titre (Bonnes fées)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 inch
$2,036
The Camel Dressed In White
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
The Loch Ness Monster – cover illustration of a book from the ECO series
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 25 x 38 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$1,357
Look of a Bird
You Wu
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 13 x 0 inch
$905
Gorille "Bleu gorille"
Philippe Dias
Painting - 150 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,205
Vanité aux papillons rouges
Philippe Pasqua
Painting - 130 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$12,327
Cheval fantôme - série animaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,979
Totem elephants cm 200 white bronze (similar silver)
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 200 x 48 x 48 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 18.9 x 18.9 inch
$31,665
Cloned Bulldog with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 47 x 50 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 19.7 x 7.9 inch
$7,351
The Angels Wanna Wear my Red Shoes
Linda McCluskey
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,866
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.