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Crocodile Born Wild
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 44 x 44 x 110 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 17.3 x 43.3 inch
£12,886
Gina Lollobrigida
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£1,466
Bear Spirit (Gold Pink Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 8 x 8 cm Design - 5.1 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
£265
Boîte de Petri #11
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£578
Le chat et sa maitresse
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
£249
Rare Bored Ape Bowie
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
£880
Roboclusion Kong Skate
Vincent Sabatier
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 2 inch
£1,155 £1,040
Walking with dog
Mihran Manukyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£813 £691
Roboclusion Bonze Kong
Vincent Sabatier
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 2 inch
£1,244 £1,120
Roboclusion Blue Kong
Vincent Sabatier
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 2 inch
£1,244
Roboclusion Light Blue Kong
Vincent Sabatier
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 2 inch
£1,244 £1,120
Aurum 17
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 42.5 x 35.5 x 5 cm Painting - 16.7 x 14 x 2 inch
£850
Homme sous la lampe
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
£1,777
Trompette de Virginie
Ludivine Corominas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,511
The black bird flies out of your sing with the fruit
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,511 £1,284
Oiseau totem d'abondance
Timothy Archer
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£6,399
En souvenir de mon enfance, Calvin & Hobbes
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 inch
£89
Cock-a-doodle-do
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
£267
Fuck, Fuck & Refuck
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 25.6 inch
£267
Taureau Lamborghini
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 180 x 270 x 70 cm Sculpture - 70.9 x 106.3 x 27.6 inch
£4,843
Alpage de l'Alpe du Lauzet, Hautes-Alpes, de la série Sur les chemins du Briançonnais
José Nicolas
Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
£444
Carpet Weavers 2
Tutu Kiladze
Painting - 21 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,155 £982
Panthére en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 90 x 40 x 180 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 15.7 x 70.9 inch
£4,577
Sitting Picsou Uncle Scoodge
Naor
Sculpture - 65 x 50 x 36 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 19.7 x 14.2 inch
£3,333
Young Chanoir
Chanoir
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 27.9 x 0.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 11 x 0.25 inch
£2,571
Street rat in love (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£44
The Weight of Primal Impulse
Brad Sane
Painting - 101 x 76 x 5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 29.9 x 2 inch
£2,568
Dreams in black and white
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 31 x 23 x 1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
£355
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
£1,244
Cloned Bulldog with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 47 x 50 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 19.7 x 7.9 inch
£5,777
A Loosely Woven Flock of Rooks
Ruth Thomas
Print - 50 x 25 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
£900
Cloned Marmot with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 36 x 26 x 20 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 10.2 x 7.9 inch
£4,888
Jungle Book
Patrick Villas
Fine Art Drawings - 145 x 127 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 57.1 x 50 x 0.4 inch
£6,399
Lisa and her little lamb
Miquel Wert
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 46 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 18.1 inch
£1,333
Tête de Cheval I
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 29.2 x 15.2 x 33 cm Sculpture - 11.5 x 6 x 13 inch
£10,220
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.