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Grand perroquet noir au cirque
Brigite Oury
Painting - 88 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 34.6 x 25.6 x 0 inch
£844
Perruche soleil
Twane
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£533
Cluster in Morpho (Small)
Daniel Byrne
Sculpture - 54 x 54 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 21.3 x 3.9 inch
£3,395
Etude from the series 191
Anastasiia Kolibaba
Painting - 27 x 52 x 1 cm Painting - 10.6 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
£415
Carriage of Travertine
Giuseppe Raggio
Painting - 80 x 130 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 51.2 x 0 inch
£71,097
La Caimana
Amanda Mijangos
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 10.6 x 0 inch
£489
El Descanso del Narrador
Armando Fonseca
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 65 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
£578
Sergei Sviatchenko - Capacity For Conjuring Illusion 8
Sergei Sviatchenko
Photography - 36 x 26 cm Photography - 14.2 x 10.2 inch
£2,666
Poetry of nature
Amir Soghrati
Painting - 190 x 400 x 4 cm Painting - 74.8 x 157.5 x 1.6 inch
£17,774
Rossinhòu rossinholet
Chiara Scarpone
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£844
Tigre chassant
José-Maria David
Sculpture - 48.5 x 60 x 22 cm Sculpture - 19.1 x 23.6 x 8.7 inch
£15,108
Reading Together Sky & Misty SIII
Petra Dorst
Sculpture - 38 x 24 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.4 x 7.9 inch
£3,510
Ecureuil Squirrel 1987 KENJI BANLIEUE BANLIEUE
Kenji
Sculpture - 48 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
£3,510
Le Travail à la Longe
Georges Carrey
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
£267
Carreta Herencia de mi Tierra
Manuel Cruz Prudencio
Sculpture - 33 x 48 x 28 cm Sculpture - 13 x 18.9 x 11 inch
£2,073
Back to black Patriotic mess 2
Juan Cordero
Print - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£533
DIP (white series)
Federico Alibrio
Sculpture - 25 x 33 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 13 x 3.9 inch
£178
Cucumber horse and aubergine cow
Atsushi Kaga
Sculpture - 15 x 20 x 5 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 7.9 x 2 inch
£7,554
Vautour pape
Ray Lambert
Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
£355
The Kissing Couple
Swen Van Schijndel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£3,555
Ricky and Amelia
Robin Schwartz
Photography - 152 x 102 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.8 x 40.2 x 0 inch
£5,777
Ripper
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 11.8 inch
£240
Bucolic Scene
Oskar Kokoschka
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 22.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 8.9 x 0.1 inch
£11,553
A break in the Rain Frogs Croak
Eric Johnston
Painting - 41 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
£5,377
La girafe
Brigite Oury
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14.2 x 0 inch
£355
Wonders Of The Depths
Katarina Olympia Zaraj
Painting - 100 x 200 x 1.7 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 0.7 inch
£4,443
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
£4,710
La mer 22
Richard Pommier
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inch
£169
Jerusalem
Ludwig Viktor Krämer
Painting - 76 x 131 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 51.6 x 0.1 inch
£8,354
Le lapin et la lune / The rabbit and the moon
France Courpotin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
£3,466
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
£3,999
Margherite rosa
Verita Monselles
Photography - 50 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£2,666
Magritte Khan No16, c.
Kokopelli
Sculpture - 45 x 81 x 19 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 31.9 x 7.5 inch
£3,110
Pattes de girafe
Hélène Legrand
Fine Art Drawings - 130 x 83 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.2 x 32.7 inch
£4,444
Sour cherries in my garden
Ignata Vasileva
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£3,377
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.