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Maria e l'elefante
Stefano Bombardieri
Sculpture - 60 x 30 x 72 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 11.8 x 28.3 inch
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La dernière chasse
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 200 x 300 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 118.1 x 1.2 inch
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Mono Contento
Manuel Cruz Prudencio
Sculpture - 25 x 30 x 25 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 11.8 x 9.8 inch
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Ippo Piccoli
Stefano Bombardieri
Sculpture - 30 x 25 x 42 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.8 x 16.5 inch
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Rino Petrol Company
Stefano Bombardieri
Sculpture - 33 x 18 x 35 cm Sculpture - 13 x 7.1 x 13.8 inch
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Le lapin blanc arrive toujours en retard
Michel Narbonne
Sculpture - 94 x 9 x 5 cm Sculpture - 37 x 3.5 x 2 inch
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Mascara Jaguar / Woodcarving Alebrije Mexican Folk Art Sculpture
Manuel Jimenez (Taller)
Sculpture - 12 x 12 x 15 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 4.7 x 5.9 inch
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Panthère se léchant la patte
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 49 x 110 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 43.3 x 11.8 inch
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Bul bul Orphée
Angélique de Chabot
Sculpture - 35 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
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Pattes de velours
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 37 x 48 x 31 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 18.9 x 12.2 inch
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Tenango Noctuno / Textiles Mexican Folk Art Embroidery
Dionisia Gomez Gomez
Sculpture - 95 x 92 x 4 cm Sculpture - 37.4 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
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Ce matin j'ai le cafard
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 58 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 22.8 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
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Tout est possible, sortie d'enfer
Phybra
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Guerrero / Woodcarving Mexican Folk Art Sculpture
Agustin Cruz Prudencio
Sculpture - 42 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
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Le refus du combat
Dominique Mückli
Sculpture - 26.5 x 26.5 x 26.5 cm Sculpture - 10.4 x 10.4 x 10.4 inch
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L'Impératrice d'Iran & Maurice Béjar
Adel Younesi
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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Die gemsen / Les chamoix
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 75 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 29.5 inch
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Le refus du combat
Dominique Mückli
Sculpture - 26.5 x 26.5 x 26.5 cm Sculpture - 10.4 x 10.4 x 10.4 inch
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Phasme feuille
Virginie Isfaoui
Painting - 100 x 50 x 3.96 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
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Homme avec poules et poussin
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 162 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
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Miniature Butterfly Chair
Pedro Friedeberg
Design - 15.2 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm Design - 6 x 4 x 4 inch
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La course camarguaise
François Boisrond
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 23.2 inch
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Chat de Montmartre
Olga Novokhatska
Painting - 41 x 27 x 1.5 cm Painting - 16.1 x 10.6 x 0.6 inch
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Le petit gorille imaginaire
Gilles Nicolas
Sculpture - 33 x 37 x 18 cm Sculpture - 13 x 14.6 x 7.1 inch
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Le petit orang-outan à l'arbre
Gilles Nicolas
Sculpture - 75 x 50 x 27 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 19.7 x 10.6 inch
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Eléphant chargeant
Gilles Nicolas
Sculpture - 31 x 44 x 24 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 17.3 x 9.4 inch
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Le Chimpanzé hurlant 2/8
Gilles Nicolas
Sculpture - 39 x 25 x 22 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 9.8 x 8.7 inch
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Le Rhinocéros courant
Gilles Nicolas
Sculpture - 16 x 43 x 23 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 16.9 x 9.1 inch
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Ein Spaziergang im Winter / Une promenade en hiver
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
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L'impossible étreinte
Timothy Archer
Fine Art Drawings - 132 x 92 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 52 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
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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.