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Journal d'un confiné 9
André Cervera
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
£252
Journal d'un confiné - 24
André Cervera
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
£252
L'Oiseau des Îles et les fleurs
Paul Mathey
Painting - 28.5 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 11.2 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
£740
Delights Gardens 6
Magdalena Nalecz
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£530
TEMPLE OF THE SUN PHOENIX
Mauricco Zaraj
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,195
Un après-midi au Manège
Maria Teresa Bertina
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£5,841
Do Bunnies Dream of Electric Bird?
Mariko Ando
Print - 15.2 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm Print - 6 x 4 x 2 inch
£654
I Collect Flowers in your Memory
Mariko Ando
Print - 15.2 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm Print - 6 x 4 x 2 inch
£675
Falling Into Wonderland
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
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Interstice of Worlds
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
£584
Sleeping beauty awakes
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 61 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,267
Portrait of leopard
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 92 x 71 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28 x 0.8 inch
£1,474
Lord of the jungle
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 76 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,537
Gutta -Percha Hunter (diptych)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
£4,996
Walking in the bush
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 70 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,411
Two Hares in the Velvet Woods
Mariko Ando
Print - 15.2 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Print - 6 x 4.5 x 2 inch
£632
Plus on est de fous, plus on rit...
François Nasica
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£1,078
Portrait Royal Meoxit Cat - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,707 £1,400
Avec le chat - Scène de vie art brut
Luco
Painting - 65 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£449
I saw it, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Laurent Proneur
Painting - 152.4 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 55 x 2 inch
£27,913
L'Ours dansant
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 50 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
£2,876
Neha et les autruches - Pakistan (2)
Sarah Caron
Photography - 54 x 79 x 0.1 cm Photography - 21.3 x 31.1 x 0 inch
£1,797
L'armoire mange le bourdon
RG RG
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,617
A King in his forest 03, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
£449
A King in his forest 02, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
£449
Black beast in its woods 01, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50 x 100 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 inch
£449
Her Majesty the Flamingo, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
£449
Master of the kingdome, Dordogne
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
£449
Squirrel in the Field of Flowers
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 22.7 x 22.7 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.9 x 8.9 x 1.2 inch
£539
Rabbits, Light in the Forest
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 27.3 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 10.7 x 1.2 inch
£539
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.