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Route de San Remo, mioli attelage
Arthur Jean Baptiste Calame
Painting - 22 x 32 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8.7 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
£902
Renuka
Kiim Hyun Kim
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
£800
Lièvre à la déesse
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 40 x 39 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.4 x 7.9 inch
£1,066
Hanuman monkey
Raminta Blazeviciute - Mozuraitiene
Painting - 111 x 71 x 2 cm Painting - 43.7 x 28 x 0.8 inch
£551
Autour du Lac Son Kol
Valentin Pacaut
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£1,466
Danse des flamants roses
Jean-Jacques Abieniste
Painting - 46 x 38 x 1.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.6 inch
£592
Primates - Kandti Vase - Mint Green & Blue
Elena Salmistraro
Design - 41 x 26 x 24 cm Design - 16.1 x 10.2 x 9.4 inch
£1,315
Paysans au bord de l'étang
V. Attanasi
Painting - 36.2 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 14.3 x 24 x 0.8 inch
£546
Poissons, citron et cuivre
Jules Jacques Olivier De Cocquerel
Painting - 45 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,184
Black panther BBBP alpha - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
£711
Couple d'oiseaux sur une branche fruitée
C.B. Hjortdal
Painting - 28.5 x 36.5 x 1 cm Painting - 11.2 x 14.4 x 0.4 inch
£1,639
Jelly-stic fish
Karl N’da Adopo
Photography - 90 x 110 x 3 cm Photography - 35.4 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
£1,066
Paysans et chevaux avec charettes dans un champs
Gûo
Painting - 48 x 58 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.9 x 22.8 x 0.2 inch
£920
N°1330 - Lion collection
Alikhan Abdollahi
Sculpture - 28 x 36 x 21 cm Sculpture - 11 x 14.2 x 8.3 inch
£667
Dancing Swallows I
Ottelien Huckin
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,800
Memorie e vecchi ori (heroes)
Alberto La Tassa
Painting - 160 x 230 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 90.6 x 1.2 inch
£21,329
Panama (Baby Elephant)
Thomas Turner
Sculpture - 64 x 48 x 10 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 18.9 x 3.9 inch
£1,066
Lulu le chat série Animaux
Christophe Beaufront (Rodolph)
Sculpture - 30 x 126 x 21 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 49.6 x 8.3 inch
£6,399
Insupportable soif
Pierre Mouzat
Sculpture - 30 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
£6,665
Mythological composition
Spas Kirichev
Sculpture - 29 x 32 x 13 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 12.6 x 5.1 inch
£2,266
L'enlèvement d'Europe tricycladique
Philippe Messager
Sculpture - 36 x 35 x 15 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 13.8 x 5.9 inch
£702
Mégalodon - Interprétation abstraite du requin
Jocelyne Texier dite Joce
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
£324
Ayanfe Omo Oba
Wale Ajayi
Fine Art Drawings - 119.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1 inch
£2,944
Untitled
Albert Debois
Fine Art Drawings - 51 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.1 x 14.2 x 0 inch
£498
Le chanteur
Cyril Réguerre
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 27 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
£116
Kong Christmas Green
Richard Orlinski
Design - 19 x 13.5 x 6 cm Design - 7.5 x 5.3 x 2.4 inch
£443 £400
Asino in riflessione
Gianni Chiriatti
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,044
Asino d'oro
Gianni Chiriatti
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£3,110 £2,955
La Mouette
Jean François Humbert
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.15 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
£2,844
Allée couverte du Kernic
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 21 x 39 x 0.5 cm Photography - 8.3 x 15.4 x 0.2 inch
£320
Masque lapin N°1
David Martin
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
£267 £240
Chevauchée Grecque
Clotilde Hulin-Quarez
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,511
Lioness
Lenci Marino
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 36 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 14.2 x 1.2 inch
£1,066
My Little Pet and I
Akingbade Mayowa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
£2,737
Deux corbeaux
Emma Plesse
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£355
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.