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.
Ivan Tverdun
Painting . 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,850
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Ilia Balavadze
Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€1,400
Ilia Balavadze
Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€1,400
Ilia Balavadze
Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€1,400
Ilia Balavadze
Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€1,800
Eulogia Merle
Painting . 61.5 x 46 x 4 cm Painting . 24.2 x 18.1 x 1.6 inch
€1,280
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Eulogia Merle
Painting . 46 x 30 x 4 cm Painting . 18.1 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€836
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Eulogia Merle
Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 35 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 13.8 inch
€400
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Yves Brayer
Painting . 31 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting . 12.2 x 9.1 x 0 inch
€1,400
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Yves Brayer
Fine Art Drawings . 24 x 18.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings . 9.4 x 7.3 x 0.1 inch
€860
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Yves Brayer
Fine Art Drawings . 20.5 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings . 8.1 x 11.6 inch
€500
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Yves Brayer
Fine Art Drawings . 30.5 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings . 12 x 9.3 inch
€300
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Waleria Matelska
Fine Art Drawings . 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€180
Waleria Matelska
Fine Art Drawings . 28.5 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.2 x 6.7 x 0 inch
€170
Philippe Cognée
Fine Art Drawings . 36.5 x 29 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 14.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch
€2,300
Philippe Cognée
Painting . 65 x 92 x 5 cm Painting . 25.6 x 36.2 x 2 inch
€22,000
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Philippe Cognée
Painting . 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,800
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Philippe Cognée
Sculpture . 20 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm Sculpture . 7.9 x 6.5 x 1 inch
€2,000
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Philippe Cognée
Painting . 57.5 x 76 cm Painting . 22.6 x 29.9 inch
€8,500
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Anastasia Ovsyannikova
Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€880
Anastasia Ovsyannikova
Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€880
Anastasia Ovsyannikova
Fine Art Drawings . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€880
Anastasia Ovsyannikova
Fine Art Drawings . 84 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 33.1 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,157
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
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Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings . 67.5 x 53 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 26.6 x 20.9 x 0.4 inch
€2,500
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Francine Van Hove
Painting . 73 x 116 cm Painting . 28.7 x 45.7 inch
€20,300
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Francine Van Hove
Painting . 54 x 81 cm Painting . 21.3 x 31.9 inch
€13,200
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Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€3,300
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings . 55 x 77 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 21.7 x 30.3 x 0.4 inch
€4,100
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings . 44 x 85.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 17.3 x 33.7 x 0.4 inch
€7,700
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€1,599
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings . 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€1,500
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings . 13.5 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 5.3 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€1,950
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€1,293
Vladimir Velickovic
Fine Art Drawings . 36 x 26 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 14.2 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
Vladimir Velickovic
Fine Art Drawings . 32 x 28 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings . 12.6 x 11 x 1.2 inch
€4,000
