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Imagined destinations, Fau de Verzy
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 130 x 85 x 0.2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 33.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,933
Passion's anatomy
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 200 x 160 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 0.1 inch
$5,191
Van Gogh Museum Self Portrait 400% + 100%
Bearbrick
Design - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Design - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$449
Flying Les Paul
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 137 x 70 x 9 cm Sculpture - 53.9 x 27.6 x 3.5 inch
$24,721
Bombay by night
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$336
Direction La Mecque
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$336
Sacrifices made to the nymphs
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$7,257
The cart with the horse. Suzdal
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 30 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,843
L'Impresario et la Souris
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$336 $169
Vaches d'appartement
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$336
La Colombe et le chat
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$336
La Chasse aux Pigeons
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$336
Dragon des mers
Jean-Claude Giangreco
Painting - 61 x 117 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 46.1 x 1.2 inch
$3,371
La centrale Electrique
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$336
Le dernier elephant I
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$336
American Dream
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$336 $169
A Contre-courant
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$336 $169
Smell of Bubble Gum
Tamta Chachanidze
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$674
Balade sentimentale
Christian Raffin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,596
See the Emotion
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 95 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,809
Bug in the system
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Print - 64 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 25.2 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,933
Dreaming in Sanskrit
Susan Rocklin
Painting - 160 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$9,396
A Cat on a Warm TV
Alexander (Sandro) Antadze
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,697
L’imprévisible futur
Jocelyne Deschamps-Kus
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,034
Non, Mr Trump, Le Groënland n'est pas à vendre
Jocelyne Deschamps-Kus
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,809
L'accueil
Jocelyne Deschamps-Kus
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$4,270
Au pied de la lettre
Maïté Martinez
Sculpture - 21 x 8.5 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 3.3 x 5.9 inch
$4,270
Waiting for the seeds to come
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 50 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,360
Evening talks (Conversations du soir)
Laura Makabresku
Photography - 18 x 30 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.8 inch
$365
Paris tonkar
Hasb
Fine Art Drawings - 29.8 x 41.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$539
Birds of America | May 19 Least Tern 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$393
Birds of America | Long Build Curlew 3 June 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 20 x 32 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$393
Birds of America | Snowy Egret May 12 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$393
Birds of America | Maryland Yellow Throat April 26 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$393
Plumes de feu série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$506
Tropiques-perroquet
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
L'éternelle attente
Pierre Sgamma
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$3,146
Le Carrousel
Jean-Jacques Kugel
Sculpture - 80 x 40 x 16 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 15.7 x 6.3 inch
$5,394
Animal Man
Brandon Vickerd
Sculpture - 182 x 43 x 44.5 cm Sculpture - 71.7 x 16.9 x 17.5 inch
$16,500
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.