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Koi anticipation XI
Peter Goodhall
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,929
Arbre de vie et papillons
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$11,309
Crypsis
Angelo Pioppo
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$554
Tigre attaquant un buffle
Henri Rousseau dit Le douanier Rousseau
Print - 56 x 75 x 0.1 cm Print - 22 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$226
En proie à de cruelles hésitations à propos de différentes choses.
Reinhoud d'Haese
Sculpture - 68 x 40 x 23 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 15.7 x 9.1 inch
$11,874
The Palette Knife Of Spring
Alejandro Moretti
Painting - 60 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
$565
Lifestyle - Paper Cut
David Gerstein
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,315
Jeune Cerf
Christine Guillemin
Sculpture - 70 x 57 x 30 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 22.4 x 11.8 inch
$13,571
roofvogel met vis
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 70 x 48 x 60 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 18.9 x 23.6 inch
$16,681
Les deux amis et l'oiseau
Rebecca de Cachard
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,036
Azure Adornment
Gevorg Sinanyan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$300 $255
Cambodge, Prey Nup, Bantei Prey, jeune fille
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$735
Bye Bye Blackbirdds
Paula Montgomery
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$3,100
Grand perroquet noir au cirque
Brigite Oury
Painting - 88 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 34.6 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$1,074
Between the bite and the beak, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Amy Bernays
Painting - 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$950
Il était une fois
Maïté Martinez
Sculpture - 13 x 17 x 14 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 6.7 x 5.5 inch
$5,428
Gardien de chevaux 1987 Horses Guardian
Guang Jun
Print - 25 x 32.5 cm Print - 9.8 x 12.8 inch
$1,120 $560
Crabes & Carapaces
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,036
Sticking to my post
Poren Huang
Sculpture - 33 x 42 x 53 cm Sculpture - 13 x 16.5 x 20.9 inch
$28,400
Libre comme l'air 2
Marielle Ritlewski
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$1,583
Strange Birds with a warm heart Nr 3 & 4
Jacqueline Schäfer
Painting - 30 x 48 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 18.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,131
Hotel Mermaid Club #2
Chris Rhodes
Photography - 10 x 8 x 0.2 cm Photography - 3.9 x 3.1 x 0.1 inch
$170
Beluga in mind
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,428
1958 Oiseau Bird
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 75 x 54 x 0.75 cm Painting - 29.5 x 21.3 x 0.3 inch
$1,074
La girafe
Brigite Oury
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$452
A rush of wind trought the leaves
Jorge Calero
Painting - 89.9 x 59.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.5 inch
$950
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Vladas Kanciauskas
Sculpture - 39 x 42 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 16.5 x 7.1 inch
$3,393
Panther Chrome
Steve Chaudanson
Sculpture - 98 x 63 x 220 cm Sculpture - 38.6 x 24.8 x 86.6 inch
$54,283
Transcoder - The Secret about Curves
Chien Hua Huang
Photography - 40 x 75 x 4 cm Photography - 15.7 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,393
Liquid metal
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$645 $548
Scientific illustration - vertical distribution of species in the mountain
Tekla Aleksieva
Print - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Print - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$62
Hommage à la Dame à l'hermine de Leonard de Vinci
Barzin Baharloee
Photography - 80 x 58 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 22.8 x 1.2 inch
$2,262
Couple de mésanges bleues
Jean Lemonnier
Sculpture - 16 x 11 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 4.3 x 3.5 inch
$2,262
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.