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Peach blossoms bloom in spring, peaceful scenery
Hoang Phuong
Painting - 111 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 43.7 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,800
Draw the Table-Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,034
Draw a Table-Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,495
Draw the table Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,270
Draw a Table - Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,270
Draw a Table - Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,270
Draw The Table - The Secret Life
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,596
Evening talks (Conversations du soir)
Laura Makabresku
Photography - 18 x 30 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.8 inch
$365
Birds of America | June 7 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 20 x 32 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$393
Untitled 9 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$4,000
Composition au canard
Michel Narbonne
Sculpture - 30 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$225
Still life with fishes
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$450
Mass Extinction 6 - In pieces
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 100.1 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,705
Les corbeaux volent sur le dos
Lionel Morateur
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$309
Caught in the Act
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$4,057
South of Taos, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.2 inch
$2,070
Beautiful England
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 102.1 x 102.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,872
Tortue aux yeux verts
Herve Guibert
Sculpture - 20 x 50 x 40 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 19.7 x 15.7 inch
$787
Rhino #5 - One of the big five
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 119.4 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 47 x 39 x 0.7 inch
$2,147
The peacocks secret, Painting, Oil on canvas
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 102.1 x 102.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 40.2 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,094
Les dauphins
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
$26,968
Les méduses II
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 162 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$26,968
Untitled 10
Wang Fei
Fine Art Drawings - 97 x 78 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.2 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
$16,406
La case aux oiseaux
Stéphane Foucaud
Painting - 96.5 x 78 x 4 cm Painting - 38 x 30.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,591
Sao Kikko Bingo
Stéphane Foucaud
Painting - 100.5 x 88.5 x 4 cm Painting - 39.6 x 34.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,779
Two dogs and two columns-2
Koh Gi
Painting - 91 x 116.8 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 46 x 1.2 inch
$7,922
Calosoma sycophanta
Amandine Golle
Fine Art Drawings - 122 x 58 cm Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 22.8 inch
$954
Gargaphia tiliae
Amandine Golle
Fine Art Drawings - 122 x 58 cm Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 22.8 inch
$573
Les Blancs de Camargue
Georges Corominas
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$14,552
Fantasia à Meknès
Georges Corominas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$22,159
Quatorze
Emeline Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$3,933
Lumière et vent du Sahara
Max Parisot du Lyaumont
Print - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,247
All Words White
Anne Juliette Deschamps
Sculpture - 35 x 23 x 45 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.1 x 17.7 inch
$3,933
Gold Tibetan Ram Skull
Angela Morris-Winmill
Print - 25.4 x 63.5 x 7.6 cm Print - 10 x 25 x 3 inch
$517
Jewel Tree, Rabbit
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 116.7 x 116.7 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 45.9 x 45.9 x 1.2 inch
$14,608
Femme dans les nuages
Gris De Garance
Painting - 30 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$112
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.