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Le sourire complice des amants
Timothy Archer
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$8,053
Jungle Book
Patrick Villas
Fine Art Drawings - 145 x 127 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 57.1 x 50 x 0.4 inch
$8,053
Bee hummingbird
Edgar Quispe
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 52 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 20.5 inch
$582
Grande panthère couchée sur branche
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 42 x 60 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 23.6 x 7.9 inch
$15,658
Nunavik - Les mines d'or et la faune au Canada
Jocelyne Texier dite Joce
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$408
Papillons d'eau - Composition abstraite
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$190
Papillons exotiques - Composition abstraite de la nature
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$190
Wings of Happiness
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 127 x 177.8 x 0.25 cm Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 inch
$1,790
Moon Spirit
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 152.4 x 121.92 x 0.25 cm Photography - 60 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$1,622
An Autumn Tale
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 127 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 50 x 0.1 inch
$1,230
Time to Fly
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 127 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,286
Nature Frame
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,063
Enjoy the sunshine
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,063
Wings of Life
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 66.04 x 99.06 x 0.25 cm Photography - 26 x 39 x 0.1 inch
$895
Precious Moment
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 101.6 x 81.28 x 0.25 cm Photography - 40 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$951
A Hard-Working Great Egret
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$783
Wings of the Sky
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 60.96 x 76.2 x 0.25 cm Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$671
This Land is Your Land
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 58.42 x 78.74 x 0.25 cm Photography - 23 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$671
Peace, Love, and Joy
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 60.96 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$783
When the Moon Rises
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 60.96 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$671
Moon song
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 152.4 x 121.92 x 0.25 cm Photography - 60 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$1,566
Hummingbird and blue jay
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 7.6 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 3 inch
$3,893
Dromadaires bleus
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$537
Still life with bird and fan
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$300
Lion royal, version or
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,796
Still life with bird and clock
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$300
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$300
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$300
Le Baiser dans les jonquilles - Tribute to Brancusi - Abstrait nu N°16
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$878
Family, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Daniel Clarke
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.2 inch
$643
Piaf violet clair brillant, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$324
Piaf violet brillant, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$324
Horse and the child
Stavri Kalinov
Painting - 113 x 68 x 2 cm Painting - 44.5 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
$10,961
Manifestation: Blue Birds
Eury Kim
Painting - 53 x 40.8 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$828
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.