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Follow Your Dreams
Marney-Rose Edge
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 31 x 6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 12.2 x 2.4 inch
£302
Dragon in gold- 3D zodiac, skylights, gold leaf, gilding, plaster, objects
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,555
Golden dragon on white - 3D plaster, gold leafing, minimalistic
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,999
Bird III
Vincent Champion-Ercoli
Sculpture - 103 x 40 x 36 cm Sculpture - 40.6 x 15.7 x 14.2 inch
£16,885
Bird II
Vincent Champion-Ercoli
Sculpture - 35.5 x 10.5 x 10 cm Sculpture - 14 x 4.1 x 3.9 inch
£2,400
Bird cage
Sebastian Riemer
Photography - 105 x 130 x 3 cm Photography - 41.3 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
£6,221
Storyteller
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 45.7 x 34.5 x 0.5 cm Photography - 18 x 13.6 x 0.2 inch
£1,327
Cheval Cubiste de Guernica Bois
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 56 x 25 x 20 cm Sculpture - 22 x 9.8 x 7.9 inch
£4,088
Le Majestueux; Purple feathers
Clo
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
£2,903
Sans titre, bajo el mismo mar
Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£400
Concave
Nicolas Sanchez
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 20 x 1.5 inch
£4,976
Black Head Gull,
Nicholas Robertson
Painting - 20.1 x 25.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 10 x 0.2 inch
£347
Sans titre
Julien Drogoul
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
£1,066
Master of camouflage
Peter de Boer
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,466
La Dame au Mouton
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 24 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
£173
World of instincts
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£5,805
N° 1240 Lac de Tibériade. Do-Beïtenou.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£480
Summer mood III-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 52 x 22 x 13 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 8.7 x 5.1 inch
£435
La jument VIVI
Mario Adornetto
Painting - 137.2 x 137.2 x 12.7 cm Painting - 54 x 54 x 5 inch
£7,796
Le léopard Sweyn
Mario Adornetto
Painting - 137.2 x 137.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 54 x 54 x 4 inch
£7,796
Sans titre
Babahoum
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 38 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 15 x 0.1 inch
£267
Sans titre
Babahoum
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 37.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 14.8 x 0.1 inch
£267
Sans titre
Babahoum
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 38.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 15.2 x 0.1 inch
£267
Silencieusement, elle glissait sur l’air
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,209
Smoke on the water
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
£1,209
Totem Oiseau Bleu
Dominique Combe
Sculpture - 62 x 32 x 14 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 12.6 x 5.5 inch
£1,031
Three Whales
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£622
Chic Urban Bear
Priscilla Vettese
Sculpture - 17.5 x 26.5 x 16.5 cm Sculpture - 6.9 x 10.4 x 6.5 inch
£196
Triple Betta, Photograph, Archival Ink Jet
Michael Filonow
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£361
Betta Collage 53
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£319
Betta Collage 54
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£381
Betta Collage 56
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£319
The Four Kings
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£402
Betta Collage 73
Michael Filonow
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£361
Kaleidoscope 14
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£444
Kaleidoscope 13
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£448
Betta Collage 44
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£527
Betta Blur 34
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£469
Betta Blur 49
Michael Filonow
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£448
Imagined destinations, Underwater ( Sous l’eau )
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 36 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£444
Imagined destinations, Winter (L'hiver)
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 50 x 36 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
£444
D'après La Joconde de Léonard de Vinci
Françoise Leblond
Painting - 81 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
£2,871
La danseuse étoile
Françoise Leblond
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£2,746
A veces se nos olvida
Richard García
Painting - 170 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£7,616
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.