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Sublime et silence
Marianne Lefevre
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£719
Guarded Territory
Inga Makarova
Painting - 125 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£4,942
Piaf caméléon, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
£261
Evolution breed dog
Kraiwit Phothikul
Painting - 130 x 160 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63 x 1.6 inch
£2,696
Fantasy Family
Kraiwit Phothikul
Painting - 140 x 125 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 49.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,594
Carlin
Jean-Michel Pradel-Fraysse
Sculpture - 35 x 49 x 25 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 19.3 x 9.8 inch
£8,537
Azul B
Pere Bennàssar Obrador
Sculpture - 60 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
£1,842
Azul A
Pere Bennàssar Obrador
Sculpture - 60 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
£1,842
Jeune courtisane fumant
Sounya Whang
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£647
Fragment orang-outan
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 52 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
£14,378
Fragment de Panthère noire
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 45 x 20 x 33 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 7.9 x 13 inch
£12,131
Poisson Globe
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 36 x 20 x 30 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 7.9 x 11.8 inch
£8,357
Naissance éléphanteau
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 20 x 10 x 22 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.9 x 8.7 inch
£5,841
Alice aux pays des merveilles
Nobody
Sculpture - 21 x 11 x 6 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 4.3 x 2.4 inch
£90
Grâce de paon
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
£216
Petit faucon
Madeleine Van der Knoop
Sculpture - 27 x 46 x 27 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 18.1 x 10.6 inch
£3,505
Un Français a donné un canapé, quatre chaises et un fauteuil
Alexander Daniloff
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 24 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
£234
The power of love 1
Line Taarnberg
Photography - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£517
Wealth Bringing
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£809
Boss Lion XXL
Yaniv Edery
Sculpture - 210 x 130 x 100 cm Sculpture - 82.7 x 51.2 x 39.4 inch
£85,367
If Anyone Would like To jump on The Page
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 23 x 31 cm Painting - 9.1 x 12.2 inch
£359
Capricorno, serie Segni zodiacali
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 19 x 19 x 0.2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
£70
Un soir ... le minotaure
Clara Crespin
Painting - 162 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
£4,223
A Bird Named Autumn
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 35.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 14 x 0 inch
£350
Comment capturer une autruche
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£539
Attention ou vous campez
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£539
Les fonds des abîmes n°15 - série fond marin
Moniq
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,426
Fashion handbag
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,798
Battements... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
£539
Exuberant Peonies and a Little Thing Called Love in a form of a Young Blue Dog
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£440
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.