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Hayet, déesse Egyptienne
Fefe Talavera
Painting - 115 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,618
Papillon psychédélique #1
Sparkle
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,124
I saw it, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 55 x 2 inch
$33,100
Her best friend
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Blop blop - série décor et poisson
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$775
Thoroughbred Stables
Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$511
Madame Butterfly Sculpture
Yunior Marino
Sculpture - 134.6 x 129.5 x 38.1 cm Sculpture - 53 x 51 x 15 inch
$12,000
Sea Horse
Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth
Sculpture - 30 x 42 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 16.5 x 3.5 inch
$3,427
Horse's Head
Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth
Sculpture - 38 x 35 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15 x 13.8 x 4.7 inch
$4,236
The Night Hunter
Mela Ann Cooke
Sculpture - 63 x 46 x 28 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 18.1 x 11 inch
$11,709
Untitled
Francesc Genovés
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$624
Untitled
Francesc Genovés
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$624
Vaches dans le champ
Armand Cacheux
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,032
008- Série Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,348
001- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,348
Algerie-Les Touaregs_Sahara. Tassili N'Ajjer
Nadia Ferroukhi
Photography - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
Rencontre sur la Place
Adolfo Carducci
Painting - 41.5 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.3 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$918
L'Oiseau des Îles et les fleurs
Paul Mathey
Painting - 28.5 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 11.2 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$918
L’araignée blanche
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$337
Un après-midi au Manège
Maria Teresa Bertina
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$7,304
Sleeping beauty awakes
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 61 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,584
Portrait of leopard
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 92 x 71 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,843
Lord of the jungle
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 76 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,921
Sugar free I
Milena Jovicevic
Painting - 90 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,686 $1,433
Walking in the bush
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 70 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,764
Gummy bear wall art - California sunset
Gabriela Alejandra Rivera
Sculpture - 30 x 35 x 5 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
$787
Le Chat Noir avec le Collier Poofy
Brian Nash
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,400
Panthère noire au collier de perles
Sylvain Lang
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,922
Avec le chat - Scène de vie art brut
Luco
Painting - 65 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$562
LA JOLIE DANSE DES PAPILLONS
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,118
Où il y a de la vie, il y a de l'espoir... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
L'échappée belle...
Olivier Messas
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
L'Ours dansant
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 50 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$3,596
Le chant des oiseaux... (Origami 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,067
Red maiden. Dragonfly. 3
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 29 x 29 x 4 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.6 inch
$688
Red maiden. Dragonfly. 2
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 29 x 29 x 4 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.6 inch
$688
Red maiden. Dragonfly. 1
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 29 x 29 x 4 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.6 inch
$688
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.