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Vol au dessus de Villandry 2
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£2,488
Vol au dessus de Villandry
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£2,488
Seagulls on the move
Peter de Boer
Painting - 140 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£3,555
Barques en fête
SP
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
£76
En attendant le Petit Prince
Lela Migirov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£222
En attendant le Petit Prince
Lela Migirov
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£222
Étude de vaches
Innocenti
Fine Art Drawings - 12.5 x 19.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.9 x 7.7 x 0.1 inch
£264
Panthère sautant sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 7 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 2.8 inch
£3,110
Bois de feu - Peinture cerf
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£70
I'm not afraid anymore 9
Amélie Joos
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1.5 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.6 inch
£133
I'm not afraid anymore 18
Amélie Joos
Painting - 15 x 10 x 1.5 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.6 inch
£133
Underwater Waltz
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£373
Premier Contact
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
£2,488
Solar Eclipse
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
£4,561
Unter einem guten Stern
Swen Timm Angermann
Painting - 69 x 59 x 4 cm Painting - 27.2 x 23.2 x 1.6 inch
£1,955
Singes sages rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 18 x 32 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 12.6 x 4.9 inch
£1,365
"Garden l" Painting
Mariah Birsak
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,689
Betta Collage 44
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£381
Sirop maison 2
Andisheh Moghtaderpour
Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
£147
Sirop maison 1
Andisheh Moghtaderpour
Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
£147
Kaleidoscope 2
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£402
Kaleidoscope 3
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£406
Kaleidoscope 12
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£386
Kaleidoscope 16
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£319
Kaleidoscope 19
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£402
Betta Blur 22
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£386
Betta Blur 20
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
£394
Together forever and ever (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£755
Scottish Blackface Ram (Ovis Aries)
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 60 x 62 x 42 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 24.4 x 16.5 inch
£5,510
Perroquet des étoiles
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£222
Regard en chien
Aurélie Quentin
Painting - 130 x 130 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0 inch
£5,226
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.