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Les Deux Taureaux et une Grenouille
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 33.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 13.2 x 0 inch
£3,377
Alors, que pense-tu ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Eh, je ne suis pas belle ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Je suis Monsieur Lapin
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Je ne suis pas content
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Pourquoi tu dis ça ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Eh, tu ne comprends pas ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Monsieur Lapin II
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Monsieur chien III
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Monsieur Chien II
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£400
Taureau
Jérémy Le Mouël (Mooven’s)
Painting - 50 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,244
Dragon Bleu, portrait de Doudou
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
£222
Versión libre “La Paloma” de Picasso
O'Farrell
Painting - 130 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
£978
Mi torre de Babel acuática
Alfredo Sosabravo
Print - 65 x 77 x 0 cm Print - 25.6 x 30.3 x 0.01 inch
£829
La amiga de los animales
Alfredo Sosabravo
Print - 94 x 72.9 x 0 cm Print - 37 x 28.7 x 0.01 inch
£1,244
Nezahualcoyotl - The First Constructor 4
Francisco Corzas
Print - 49 x 65.5 x 0 cm Print - 19.3 x 25.8 x 0.01 inch
£829
L'heure du Léopard
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
£755
Horse riding on the beach
Trayko Popov
Painting - 101 x 72 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 28.3 x 0.2 inch
£1,066
Guspirus en las flores
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£880
Cavalcade
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 20.5 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.1 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
£2,577
Le cheval
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 27.5 x 28 x 11 cm Sculpture - 10.8 x 11 x 4.3 inch
£2,177
La chouette
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 33.5 x 12 x 11.5 cm Sculpture - 13.2 x 4.7 x 4.5 inch
£1,955
Primer PGO – illustration
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 27 x 45 x 0.2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
£498
Nobility
Javier Prieto Meneses
Painting - 59.3 x 79.5 x 2 cm Painting - 23.3 x 31.3 x 0.8 inch
£1,066
Buster Brown and Tige
Brian Nash
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
£2,032
Sans titre (Alice)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
£1,600
Sans titre (tea time)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
£667
Funny Pig-bottle stopper
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 5 x 4.5 x 3 cm Sculpture - 2 x 1.8 x 1.2 inch
£196
Wild Kong Red 30cm
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 4.3 inch
£2,903
The Gig
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 4 x 10 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 1.6 x 3.9 x 0 inch
£373
Bird with Long tail 6/25
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 4 x 10 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 3.9 x 1.4 inch
£338
Horses in the mountain
Mario Pascual Cámara
Photography - 42 x 65 cm Photography - 16.5 x 25.6 inch
£889
Mountains with horses 2
Mario Pascual Cámara
Photography - 58.12 x 135 cm Photography - 22.9 x 53.1 inch
£1,333
Bouledogue Anglais
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 17 x 16 x 14 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 6.3 x 5.5 inch
£4,355
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.