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Kali Yerg (old Armenian song) by Komitas
Zhora Gasparyan
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,253
La chasse à courre en Irlande
Vincent Haddelsey
Print - 37.5 x 54.5 cm Print - 14.8 x 21.5 inch
£134
Totem elephants cm 200 white bronze (similar silver)
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 200 x 48 x 48 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 18.9 x 18.9 inch
£25,059
Joie de Vivre
Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie
Sculpture - 26 x 34 x 17 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 13.4 x 6.7 inch
£4,125
La peau d'une orange séchée paraissant être à la fois un pistolet et une gueule de chien
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 4.3 inch
£805
In the Shadows
Drew Doggett
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£2,074
Higher Ground
Drew Doggett
Photography - 50.8 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£2,074
Mother's Grace
Drew Doggett
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£2,074
Panther Spirit (Silver Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 9 x 13 x 8 cm Design - 3.5 x 5.1 x 3.1 inch
£439
Lion Spirit (Petrol Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 13 x 5 cm Design - 5.1 x 5.1 x 2 inch
£430
Tiger's Retreat
Drew Doggett
Photography - 50.8 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£2,074
Titans of Time
Drew Doggett
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£2,746
Unlikely Companions
Drew Doggett
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
£2,385
Unyielding Giant
Drew Doggett
Photography - 63.5 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£2,074
Le Choc des titans - ours Orlinski/Pompon
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 27 x 51 x 11 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 20.1 x 4.3 inch
£7,160
Wild neck - blue céleste
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 44 x 110 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 43.3 x 17.7 inch
£16,915
Jed Johnson and Archie. From The Love of Andy series
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
£747
Poule Matoutou
César Baldaccini
Sculpture - 36 x 34 x 42 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 13.4 x 16.5 inch
£58,173
Trojan Horse
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 14.2 x 0 inch
£430
Histoires naturelles, Choupatte + En Puisaye
François-Xavier Lalanne
Print - 34 x 27 cm Print - 13.4 x 10.6 inch
£1,074
Le Majestueux - série poisson
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,461
Cecille is playing with her tail
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.75 inch
£1,020
Kleine pup met krulstaartje (Small pup with curly tail)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 12 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
£671
Chairman Mao’s Long Journey, Athens (Grikkland)
Erró
Painting - 103 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 40.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£6,712
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
£671
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
£671
Les Goélands
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 39 x 59 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.4 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
£403
Taureau prêt à charger
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 205 x 250 x 85 cm Sculpture - 80.7 x 98.4 x 33.5 inch
£4,099
Cheval au trot 2
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 210 x 300 x 80 cm Sculpture - 82.7 x 118.1 x 31.5 inch
£4,475
Croco Spirit (Purple Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 9.5 x 22 x 8 cm Design - 3.7 x 8.7 x 3.1 inch
£260
Kong penseur (spirit rouge)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 10 x 7 cm Design - 5.1 x 3.9 x 2.8 inch
£349
Abstract coral and fish
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£537
Spanish Dancer Nudibranch Sea Life Creation
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£537
Giraffe and her three daughters
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 77 x 16 x 23 cm Sculpture - 30.3 x 6.3 x 9.1 inch
£5,280
Dreaming rabbit-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 35.5 x 35 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14 x 13.8 x 8.7 inch
£528
The problem with the wolf
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 25 x 48 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 18.9 x 3.9 inch
£5,370
Rhinocéros en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 120 x 230 x 70 cm Sculpture - 47.2 x 90.6 x 27.6 inch
£4,117
Ours debout Crystal clear full fractal bleu
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 80 x 52 x 58 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 20.5 x 22.8 inch
£62,559
Charging Bull No. 2
Mario Henrique
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,490
The empresses - Wu zetian
Damien Hirst
Print - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Print - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
£5,325
Orange Funny Dragon I
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 22.5 x 17 x 13 cm Sculpture - 8.9 x 6.7 x 5.1 inch
£461
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 50 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 19.7 inch
£3,043
Crocodile Born Wild
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 44 x 44 x 110 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 17.3 x 43.3 inch
£12,977
Insects' Secrets 6
Boris Pramatarov
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 15 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
£797
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
£671
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.