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Contemplum #017
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.03 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$951
L'abreuvoir d'Eiffel
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$134
From the life of birds
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,008
Le petit Chaperaun rouge (2)
Jordi Sàbat
Painting - 30 x 30 x 5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 2 inch
$727
Des nouvelles d'Eéa
Timothy Archer
Painting - 210 x 300 x 5 cm Painting - 82.7 x 118.1 x 2 inch
$21,810
Taureau Lamborghini
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 180 x 270 x 70 cm Sculpture - 70.9 x 106.3 x 27.6 inch
$6,094
Birds of the Mythical Woods
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 120 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.7 inch
$1,286
Voyage entre deux mondes
Clara Crespin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
Ironman Disney (Edition Rouge)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 22 x 12 x 3 cm Design - 8.7 x 4.7 x 1.2 inch
$336
Les Mange-Peurs, La Nuit + Collage
Olivier Tenedor
Print - 50 x 33 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$224
Bengal tiger. strength and power.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$895
White eagle. A keen eye.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$895
The snake's gaze. Hypnosis
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$895
Black Panther. Green Eye (1)
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$895
Walking in old Paris
Elena Shichko
Painting - 65 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,566
Por tu Boca - Through Your Mouth
Peperina Magenta
Print - 49.5 x 69.9 x 1.9 cm Print - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.75 inch
$3,600
Applause Please
Tamta Chachanidze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
Let's go faster
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 40.9 x 58.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.2 x 1 inch
$2,000
Behind the Door
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 96 x 147 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 57.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
Swan_01
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,390
Contemplum #024
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.03 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$951
Beware of dog - Collection Urban Culture
Rodrigo
Photography - 35.1 x 27.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 10.7 x 0 inch
$783 $626
Bug in the system 009
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Print - 21 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 8.3 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,398
There is no Pressure on the Water
You Wu
Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 140 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.4 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$1,790
Look of a Bird
You Wu
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 13 x 0 inch
$895
Le gros poisson bleu
Yannick Le Bloas
Sculpture - 31 x 45 x 23 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 17.7 x 9.1 inch
$660
Elephant's power
Christos Patargias
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,590
Lion in the bushes
James Mutisya
Painting - 119 x 117 x 2 cm Painting - 46.9 x 46.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
Contemplum #023
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 19 x 29 x 0.03 cm Photography - 7.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$727
Ka-e-ru
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 54 x 38 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.3 x 15 x 0 inch
$1,901
Forgiveness
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 33 x 2.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13 x 0.9 inch
$2,013
Chimi Moryo
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$1,901
Rhinocéros
Valerian Sioridzé
Sculpture - 20 x 43.5 x 13.5 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 17.1 x 5.3 inch
$1,063
Éléphant de guerre, 1866
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 50 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,454
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.