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Teddy Love Noir Mat
Nicolas Krauss
Sculpture - 23 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
£1,777
Turtle Rolls-Royce
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 40 x 25 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 15.7 x 9.8 inch
£1,600
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Panthéon
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£133
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
£133
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Grand Palais
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
£133
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Fenêtre sur Ville
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£133
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Fenêtre sur Tour
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£133
Raging bull VI 6 1938 (Large) French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
£1,990
Standing Wild Bear
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 80 x 52 x 58 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 20.5 x 22.8 inch
£60,432
Tête de cheval
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 101 x 60 x 36 cm Sculpture - 39.8 x 23.6 x 14.2 inch
£39,992
Abeille III
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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Abeille II
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£116
Abeille I
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£107
Inflection Point
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 38.1 x 25.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15 x 10 x 0.2 inch
£995
Flying Dragon Floating Cloud
Hongda
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£1,937
Still life with bird and sailboat
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£265
Cheval Cubiste de Guernica
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 28 x 12 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11 x 4.7 x 3.5 inch
£515
Le mystérieux feu du renard roux
Catherine Clare
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£578
Ours à pompon comme excuse Feu rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 19 x 35 x 13 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 13.8 x 5.1 inch
£1,075
Mouette rieuse
Catherine Clare
Sculpture - 31 x 36 x 11 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 14.2 x 4.3 inch
£1,066
"Scorpion fâchée" figuratif animal acrylique sur lin 38x48cm 2009
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 38 x 48 x 3 cm Painting - 15 x 18.9 x 1.2 inch
£800
Dynaste Hercule (1)
Edouard Martinet
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 5 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 2 inch
£10,665
Héros de l'ombre #5
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£1,244
Héros de l'ombre #2
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£1,111
Red ladybug
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 40.5 x 59.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.9 x 23.4 x 0.1 inch
£1,511
Ourson Bulles white
Elodie Dengreville
Sculpture - 20 x 12 x 7 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 4.7 x 2.8 inch
£711
Passion in lively red
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.6 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
£196
Bear CD Tribute, Blue Collar
Naor
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 3.5 inch
£1,022
Toucan du Costa Rica
Catherine Clare
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,244
Still Life with a Green Bug
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
£1,824
Still Life with Black Pearls
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
£1,824
Still Life with Tomatoes
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
£1,824
Flying over Montmartre
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£147
Amando a mi prójimo
Rodo Padilla
Sculpture - 27 x 27 x 37 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.6 x 14.6 inch
£3,555
Blossom and bird song
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£249 £211
Nous attaquerons à l'aube
Bruno Mallart
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 22 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 8.7 x 1.2 inch
£889
Chérubin
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 180 x 300 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 118.1 x 1.2 inch
£23,995
Alter Ego Token Cane
Alessandro Piano
Sculpture - 24.5 x 14 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 9.6 x 5.5 x 3.7 inch
£355
The fall of the king
Minseon Gu
Painting - 65 x 45.5 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 17.9 x 1.6 inch
£2,666
The saga of samuraicat’s hanko, silver
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 90 x 90 x 20 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 35.4 x 7.9 inch
£6,665
The saga of samuraicat’s hanko, black
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 90 x 90 x 20 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 35.4 x 7.9 inch
£6,665
Samuraicat prowess : luminous blade sketch
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£7,554
Urbancat gleam : cityscape light sketch
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£7,554
Whispers of the deep: intertwined desires – homage to hokusai’s legacy 2
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 50 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 19.7 inch
£18,663
Couleurs et formes du monde - Golden Horses
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
£800
Tears of Cihuacoatl
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 140 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
£5,172
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.