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Kitten and Summer Flowers
Zoe Elizabeth Norman
Fine Art Drawings - 36.1 x 26.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$511
Stephen the Great entering Fortress of Bonnesdorf
Tara (von Neudorf)
Painting - 117 x 92 x 0.1 cm Painting - 46.1 x 36.2 x 0 inch
$5,928
Pattes de girafe
Hélène Legrand
Fine Art Drawings - 130 x 83 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.2 x 32.7 inch
$5,592
Les cerfs volants (d’après le chat d’Ono Mai) / Kites (after Ono Mai's cat),
France Courpotin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$4,362
La femme au nid d'oisillons
Dorothy Payne
Painting - 192 x 238 x 1 cm Painting - 75.6 x 93.7 x 0.4 inch
$5,033
Margherite rosa
Verita Monselles
Photography - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$3,355
Olfactory peregrinations
Cristìan Marianciuc
Print - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Print - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$336
L'oiseau rare
Antoine Halbwachs
Sculpture - 51 x 31 x 15 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 12.2 x 5.9 inch
$3,915
Dans l'fond j'entends pas
Jérôme Rochette
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$3,700
A Falcaroo Named Knievel
Brett Crawford
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2.54 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 inch
$75,000
Sevasochus - série Aves de paso
Susmar Pinango
Painting - 18 x 13 x 1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 5.1 x 0.4 inch
$101
Cluster in Morpho (Small)
Daniel Byrne
Sculpture - 54 x 54 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 21.3 x 3.9 inch
$4,495
Detected Dictionnary (Wolfsschädel)
Stefan à Wengen
Painting - 30 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,355
It will never be the last time
Gabriela Culic
Painting - 120 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
Nevermore 3
Luis Enrique Toledo
Painting - 116.8 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 46 x 36 x 1 inch
$17,000
Cheval en galop gaalctique
Ari Setiawan
Sculpture - 134 x 130 x 30 cm Sculpture - 52.8 x 51.2 x 11.8 inch
$22,369
Le papillon aquatique
Elzbieta Radziwill
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$5,033
Sleeping Cat
Giselle Halff
Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 31 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.6 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
$280
Milarius Dogonarus
Michel Flamme
Sculpture - 48 x 26 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 10.2 x 11.8 inch
$2,572
Bullfighter and bull
Pere Creixams
Painting - 45 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,461
Maci (Teddy Bear)
Szabolcs Bozó
Painting - 40.64 x 38.1 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$55,000
Chihuahua Montecarmelo
Elvira Carrasco
Sculpture - 24 x 11.5 x 14.5 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 4.5 x 5.7 inch
$2,456
Renart
Alexandre et Florentine Lamarche-Ovize
Sculpture - 60 x 70 x 40 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 27.6 x 15.7 inch
$4,138
Birds in Morocco
Helen Vogt
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 14 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.5 x 0 inch
$425
Isabel, Diorama, Scramble, 2017
Luc Tuymans
Print - 80.6 x 65.4 x 2.5 cm Print - 31.75 x 25.75 x 1 inch
$17,500
Sitting panther
Jürgen Lingl
Sculpture - 79 x 70 x 44 cm Sculpture - 31.1 x 27.6 x 17.3 inch
$28,521
Porte-briquet Tête de Lion en Cristal
René Lalique
Design - 9 x 10 x 10 cm Design - 3.5 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$503
Flying Dumbo red 1/8
SA Candela
Sculpture - 100 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$6,711
Partition légendaire
Fadia Haddad
Painting - 92 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,474
Eléphant Hermès
Dominique Kleiner
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$671
Forest Fight
Tom Liekens
Fine Art Drawings - 170 x 250 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 66.9 x 98.4 x 1.2 inch
$19,014
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.