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Grand tigre royal
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 167 x 60 x 160 cm Sculpture - 65.7 x 23.6 x 63 inch
$123,409
Panthère sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 158 x 105 x 68 cm Sculpture - 62.2 x 41.3 x 26.8 inch
$72,923
Cast on the dog by Jeff
Giuseppe Fortunato
Sculpture - 25 x 23 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
$1,122
Le messager
Agathe David
Fine Art Drawings - 52 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.5 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$673
Finch in Garden
Russell Edward Vanecek
Painting - 30.48 x 22.86 x 2.54 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1 inch
$2,113
Birds in Winter
Russell Edward Vanecek
Painting - 27.94 x 35.56 x 1.27 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.5 inch
$1,374
Birds at Moonrise
Russell Edward Vanecek
Painting - 53.34 x 38.1 x 3.51 cm Painting - 21 x 15 x 1.4 inch
$1,454
Paris, Eiffel Flamant Rose
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$303
Grand jaguar couché
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 65 x 114 x 36 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 44.9 x 14.2 inch
$44,876
Panthère s'étirant, monumentale
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 91 x 201 x 30 cm Sculpture - 35.8 x 79.1 x 11.8 inch
$56,095
I am demoniac madness maddened
Stan Maksun
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$898
Why not to go to Cuba?
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$213
Cha squelette rose
Chanoir
Fine Art Drawings - 153 x 103 cm Fine Art Drawings - 60.2 x 40.6 inch
$4,263
Find an Hotel Tree 1
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$696 $591
Petit Léopard sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 29 x 23 x 16 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 9.1 x 6.3 inch
$6,731
Charlatan
Nicola Simbari
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 23 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$673
Au-delà de l’horizon l
Taeho Choi
Fine Art Drawings - 150 x 119 cm Fine Art Drawings - 59.1 x 46.9 inch
$1,683
Portrait - Idol No.3
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$17,277
Les girafes pianistes en bord de mer / Giraffes playing piano on the seaside
Peter Stilton
Painting - 40 x 51 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 20.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,188
Éléphant et son ballon rouge
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 56 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 22 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
$9,536
Disparition du lion
Sophie Larroche
Sculpture - 44 x 27 x 13 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 10.6 x 5.1 inch
$4,375
Herrings on Ice
Tommi Anttonen
Photography - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,244
L'esprit de la paix
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$898
Une marche en Adélie
Gaelle Beyaert
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,087
Mêlée de Kokpar, Astana, Kazakhstan
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,683
Vol d’aigrettes sur le Victoria
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,683
The dog by the garage
Magnus Wahman
Photography - 40 x 73 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,346
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.