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Vamos a Bailar, Polo Miniature
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 27.9 x 25.7 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11 x 10.1 x 0.2 inch
£912
High Voltage, Polo Miniature
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 27.9 x 28.7 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11 x 11.3 x 0.2 inch
£995
Olivia
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 45.7 x 30.7 x 0.5 cm Photography - 18 x 12.1 x 0.2 inch
£1,327
Roi lion (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 36 x 64 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 25.2 x 0.1 inch
£1,600
Rafiki (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 41 x 68 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 26.8 x 0.1 inch
£1,777
Chien Ballon apesanteur en nickel rouge 38
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 38 x 23 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
£515
Chien Ballon apesanteur en nickel bleue 38
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 38 x 23 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
£515
Guitariste Arlequin Grand Bois
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 53 x 31 x 25 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 12.2 x 9.8 inch
£4,426
Panthère de l'Amour 01
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
£880
Cloned Bloodhound with Backpack
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 57 x 30 x 37 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 11.8 x 14.6 inch
£1,955
Végas pop art Miami
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 45 x 30 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 11.8 x 17.7 inch
£1,049
Dos rond EA II/IV
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 41 x 37 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 14.6 x 7.9 inch
£13,331
Panda (Série Passages)
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 38 x 52 x 8 cm Sculpture - 15 x 20.5 x 3.1 inch
£1,333
A girl who loves the sea
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
September 13, cows at the Mont Gerbier de Jonc
Anne Baudequin
Painting - 61 x 91.9 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,327
Marmot Gold Porcelain Edition
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 27 x 30 x 17 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 11.8 x 6.7 inch
£533
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 85.09 x 81.28 x 2 cm Print - 33.5 x 32 x 0.8 inch
£4,147
You're a Girl
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.9 inch
£2,222
Super hero turtle
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
£978 £782
Find an Hotel Tree 2
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
£551 £468
Blue-jeans frog
Catherine Clare
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 18 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.1 x 0 inch
£311
Banksy turtle silver II
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
£978 £782
Keith haring turtle
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
£978
Banksy turtle silver II
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
£978
La robe bleue d'après "Sainte Anne, la vierge et l'enfant Jésus " de Léonard de Vinci
Catherine Clare
Print - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£533
Pastorale africaine - Complicité, frères et soeurs
Catherine Clare
Print - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£533
Summer's Glory
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
£1,368
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.