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.
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Composition de 10 visages perdus
François Boucheix
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 37 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 14.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,133
Bonheur à la plage n°2 - série portrait infraréaliste - IA
Steve Awhtz
Print - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$346
Lioness
Lenci Marino
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 36 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 14.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,431
La mer 22
Richard Pommier
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inch
$238
Sans titre
Babahoum
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 37.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14.8 x 0.1 inch
$358
DIP (white series)
Federico Alibrio
Sculpture - 25 x 33 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 13 x 3.9 inch
$238
Magritte Khan No16, c.
Kokopelli
Sculpture - 45 x 81 x 19 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 31.9 x 7.5 inch
$4,172
Les souris
Dominique Albertelli
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1 inch
$6,914
Hija de la luz del Palacio
Mayte Solé Murillo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$477
Colorful Flying Heart
Marcus Botbol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 10 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 3.9 inch
$8,820
Sans titre
Serigne Ibrahima Dièye
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$2,027
Troglodytes Mignons
Judith Devaux
Sculpture - 11.5 x 29 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 11.4 x 4.3 inch
$3,219
Vautour pape
Ray Lambert
Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$477
Deux corbeaux
Emma Plesse
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$477
Jocker
Vladimir Nemukhin
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$5,961
Cheval soleil - Sculpture équestre ferronnerie sur peuplier
Pierre Conte
Sculpture - 23 x 43 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 16.9 x 4.3 inch
$268
Les poissons
Sacha Haillote
Photography - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,967
Bucolic Scene
Oskar Kokoschka
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 22.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 8.9 x 0.1 inch
$15,498
Jour de fête
Zoé Coulon alias Faune Studio
Print - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$119
Sardina (Limited Edition of 8)
Miquel Aparici
Photography - 45 x 150 x 2 cm Photography - 17.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,722
Tinta
Patopalomo
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 33 x 0.34 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$548
Horses
Germaine Nordmann
Fine Art Drawings - 15.3 x 24.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6 x 9.6 x 0 inch
$453
The Competition
Angelo Griscelli
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 4.5 x 0.1 inch
$453
The Tiger
Maria Ginzburg
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$417
Promenade Matinale
Valérie Zimmermann (Anna Mya Zimmer)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,657
Terra Incognita - Le Grand Canyon
Guillaume Pépy
Photography - 70 x 105 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 inch
$1,669
Sergei Sviatchenko - Capacity For Conjuring Illusion 8
Sergei Sviatchenko
Photography - 36 x 26 cm Photography - 14.2 x 10.2 inch
$3,576
Galloping Horses
Giuseppe Cominetti
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 48.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 19.1 x 0 inch
$8,941
Sketch for the Parliament Hall 'Thanatos and the Enigma'
Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$8,941
Fragment #4
Kristoffer Axén
Photography - 70 x 93 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 36.6 x 0 inch
$2,963
California Dreaming 8/2AP
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,365
Chevaux rouge et blanc
Serge Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 38 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 15 inch
$179
Yin Yang
Vitalia Stupak
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$250
Happy Toys
Elene Melikidze
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$477
Conigli arcobaleno
Matilde Berretta
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$477
Pigeon-Monstera
Mister X
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$572
-You silly, who are you? Why did you come here? -my name is a Sea!
Ketevan Varshanidze
Painting - 48 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$596
Audrey et Eléphants
Dominique Mulhem
Photography - 40 x 32 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$5,365
Brainpower II, III and I. Triptych
Juan Lamarca
Photography - 41.9 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.5 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$3,300