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Elle pousse le chariot - série métaux de récupération
Daniel Bligny
Sculpture - 35 x 34 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 13.4 x 7.9 inch
$824
Le troupeau de vaches
Ivonaldo Veloso de Melo
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$18,757
The thin place beckons
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$3,738
Le Chat Vert
Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Painting - 130 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$11,822
Protective Pooch
Arthur Steel
Photography - 66 x 86 x 1 cm Photography - 26 x 33.9 x 0.4 inch
$3,069
Uproar Landseer Lion
Arthur Steel
Photography - 66 x 86 x 1 cm Photography - 26 x 33.9 x 0.4 inch
$3,069
El Universo - The Universe
Peperina Magenta
Print - 99.1 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Print - 39 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$5,200
L'envolée de lumière... II (origami 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 37 x 37 x 6 cm Painting - 14.6 x 14.6 x 2.4 inch
$682
Tête à Tête - Petite arche à l'aérographe
La Robotte
Print - 50 x 38 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$233
Blue Moon Diamond Dust - Bunnies
Hunt Slonem
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 inch
$36,377
Girl with blue bird and Balloon ops!! red Bubble
Utopia
Painting - 120 x 105 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,865
Ours Bleu à Marinière Co. N°4
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 inch
$1,228
Le champs de quinoa...
Patricia Henricy Cruzalegui
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$796 $716
Retour de chasse au vase bleu
Charles Monnier
Painting - 73 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,095
Et Dieu créa le cheval
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 40 x 24 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.4 x 11.8 inch
$15,915
Hommage à Léonard de Vinci
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 60 x 60 x 50 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$22,167
Nestor du domaine
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 42 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
$12,504
Winter Robin II
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$375
Conchiglia
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 18.5 x 21 x 0.4 cm Painting - 7.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$193 $165
les cranquettes
Laurence Leccia
Painting - 267 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 105.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,092
Un Français a donné un canapé, quatre chaises et un fauteuil
Alexander Daniloff
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 24 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$296
I Brought You the Blessing of Love
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,387
La gardienne de mon coeur
Agnès Robin
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 inch
$1,710
Boss Lion XXL
Yaniv Edery
Sculpture - 210 x 130 x 100 cm Sculpture - 82.7 x 51.2 x 39.4 inch
$107,993
Homar'ie si tu savais
Christopher Lecoutre
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$739
Capricorno, serie Segni zodiacali
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 19 x 19 x 0.2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
$89
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.