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Chihuahua Gang Walking (Large) French School oil painting Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
£1,777
Raging bull V (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
£1,600
Animal Le chat Soulage - Large
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
£1,600
Portrait Kitten - Cat - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
£800
Animal octopus walk - 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
£1,600
Crocodile (1)
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 45 x 100 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 39.4 x 17.7 inch
£14,219
Unchained Kong
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 22 x 10 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 3.9 x 4.9 inch
£9,687
Raging Bull II NSWE (Large)
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
£1,689
Nature morte aux iris et aux tulipes, détail
Iconographia
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
£267
Sarah - Marie France - Paris
Anthony Horth
Photography - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£809
Surf Standing Wild Bear
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 40 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.8 x 11 inch
£17,685
Attacking Wolf
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 76 x 150 x 50 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 59.1 x 19.7 inch
£38,126
St. George and the Dragon
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 inch
£10,842
Star (3 rats) (#2/8)
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 17 x 40 x 47 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 15.7 x 18.5 inch
£8,443
Ka-e-ru
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 54 x 38 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.3 x 15 x 0 inch
£1,511
Forgiveness
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 33 x 2.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13 x 0.9 inch
£1,600
Chimi Moryo
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£1,511 £1,284
Monkey with a Baby - Monkey and a Tiger
Andrzej Fogtt
Painting - 57 x 76 cm Painting - 22.4 x 29.9 inch
£1,777
Monkey on the Tiger and a Parrot
Andrzej Fogtt
Painting - 57 x 76 cm Painting - 22.4 x 29.9 inch
£1,777
Tête de léopard femelle III
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 38 x 33 x 26 cm Sculpture - 15 x 13 x 10.2 inch
£14,219
Le cerf se voyant dans l'eau
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0 inch
£3,199
Je suis la meilleure
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
L'abreuvoir d'Eiffel
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
£107
Perspective d'animal
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.4 inch
£1,333
Voyage entre deux mondes
Clara Crespin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Bengal tiger. strength and power.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
£711
White eagle. A keen eye.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
£711
The snake's gaze. Hypnosis
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
£711
Chien blond vénitien
Hervé Maury
Painting - 20.2 x 40.4 x 3.5 cm Painting - 8 x 15.9 x 1.4 inch
£355
A cheerful still life.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 69.6 x 49.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 27.4 x 19.6 x 2 inch
£1,617
Forest After Snow
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 62 x 53 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.4 x 20.9 x 0 inch
£1,600 £1,360
Por tu Boca - Through Your Mouth
Peperina Magenta
Print - 49.5 x 69.9 x 1.9 cm Print - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.75 inch
£2,986
Behind the Door
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 96 x 147 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 57.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
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.