Corset, Portrait of an Equestrienne
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 45.7 x 34.8 x 0.5 cm Photography - 18 x 13.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,600
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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1952 Animaux surréalistes Fantastic Surrealistic World
Wolfgang Seuther
Print - 21 x 30 cm Print - 8.3 x 11.8 inch
$1,133
Deckchair (Red) - Open Edition
Damien Hirst
Sculpture - 121.9 x 77.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 48 x 30.5 x 3.1 inch
$2,742
Da Vinci's Horse galloping
Helle Rask Crawford
Sculpture - 14 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
$1,431
Nature's Wide and Common Sky
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 40 x 40 x 5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$847
Cher Ami, oiseau fantastique ! 3
Mathilde Neri
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 75 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$834
The Swallow's Dance
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$750 $600
Butch Chanel: John, Robert and Michael, NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Des araignées dans le grenier
Michaël Brack
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$834
Huntress
Eléonore de Moffarts
Sculpture - 48 x 65 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 25.6 x 11.8 inch
$10,847
Beauty of nature
Joanna Misoteri
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$800 $720
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
$596
Eclosion des fleurs série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$811
Dedicated to Botticelli 4
Olga Marciano
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$954
Whimsical Cat Surrealist Artwork
Julie Max
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$600
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,550
Ville déserte près de la centrale les oiseaux déserte
Fabienne Rencanzone
Painting - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$954 $858
Tell me who your friends are...
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 59.9 x 49.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.6 x 1.2 inch
$650
Tango, aquagravure originale
Raymond Waydelich
Print - 49 x 37 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.3 x 14.6 x 0.1 inch
$918
One Woman, One Dog
Steven Boksenbaum
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1.5 inch
$675
Happy Feeling Chas
Chanoir
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$4,172 $3,755
Bye Bye Blackbirdds
Paula Montgomery
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.8 inch
$3,100
Les p'tits Canailloux - Glace rouge
Arson
Sculpture - 25.5 x 25.5 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10 x 10 x 3.9 inch
$978
Baleak mini 1/8
Baleak (Lehoux-Lopez)
Sculpture - 18 x 16 x 7 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 6.3 x 2.8 inch
$1,550
Poissons volants
Hélène Lagnieu
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$954
Geese and universe
Igor Shulman
Painting - 69.9 x 69.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 27.5 x 27.5 x 2 inch
$2,200
Sparrows Have Arrived
Anastasiia Grygorieva
Painting - 140 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$5,500
Panthère cristal (1)
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 55 x 150 x 35 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 59.1 x 13.8 inch
$16,094
Pégase Captif 1889 / Captive Pegasus 1889
Odilon Redon
Print - 66.5 x 57 cm Print - 26.2 x 22.4 inch
$775
Papillonne avec une louve
Gaelle Beyaert
Painting - 60 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$787
222 Butterfly Spinpainting with Diamond Dust
Punk Me Tender
Painting - 91.5 x 91.5 x 5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$8,941
Deep Bless (les dents de la mère)
FabEnt (Fabrice Entemeyer)
Sculpture - 25 x 12 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.7 x 4.3 inch
$834
Skywalker
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 26 x 19.5 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.7 x 2.2 inch
$715 $644
Healing Greenland, Chunja And Animal Friends
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,192
Le Lapin et son Territoire
Fabiana Peña
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$942
Colombe blanche White Dove
Zanoarisoa Rajaona
Print - 29.5 x 19.5 x 0.5 cm Print - 11.6 x 7.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,097