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Phantasmagory
Mariam Odishvili
Painting - 23.5 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.3 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,131
Sans titre
François Nasica
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 14.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.1 inch
$758
Crocodile Facette Tag
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 70 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 27.6 inch
$25,897
White Horse: Illumination
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 71.1 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Applause Please
Tamta Chachanidze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,131
Let's go faster
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 40.9 x 58.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.2 x 1 inch
$2,000
Swan_01
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,390
Abstract Panther Gold
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 140 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 55.1 inch
$5,598
WILD KONG Crystal clear full fractal
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$45,123
KONG BARIL TAG 45
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 45 x 25 x 16 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 9.8 x 6.3 inch
$14,589
I Hissing
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$1,131
Golden Bird
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 8 x 10.5 x 4.8 cm Sculpture - 3.1 x 4.1 x 1.9 inch
$515 $464
WILD KONG TAG 52
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$22,505
The black bird flies out of your sing with the fruit
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,923
Start your wandering journey
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,923
L'arrivée de la pluie
Luciana Benitez Renteria
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,262
Le P'tit Kong
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$13,571
1985 Oiseau St John Perse Bird
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 38 x 28 x 0.4 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0.2 inch
$1,074
From the collection : Around about n°1220
Hamid Reza Fotouhi
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
$1,696
Éléphant de guerre, 1866
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 50 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,470
Un amour de salamandre
Samsofy
Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.5 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
$68
Les Salins aux flamands
Juan Benito
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$780 $664
Léopard assis
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 90 x 55 x 40 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 21.7 x 15.7 inch
$31,665
Léopard jouant au ballon
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 45 x 28 x 20 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 11 x 7.9 inch
$11,309
Rhino Danseur Big
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 140 x 50 x 70 cm Sculpture - 55.1 x 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$16,398
Adventures of Jimbo
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 51.1 x 76.5 x 4.1 cm Painting - 20.1 x 30.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,310
The change of seasons
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 89.9 x 89.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,965
Just the two of us
Jean Guy Morin
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,512
Cityscape with distrustful bird
Geert Lemmers
Photography - 89.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,220
In Pieces - Dragonfly
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 64 x 80 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.2 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,028
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.