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Caroline Huet
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,033
Dans la basse cour
Nathalie Montel
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,258
Requin et colonne vertébrale de baleine
Jürg Kreienbühl
Print - 40.5 x 59 x 1 cm Print - 15.9 x 23.2 x 0.4 inch
£539
Black panther VRJW alpha - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
£719
Black panther BMBW alpha - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
£719
Beer met jong op rug
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 50 x 65 x 35 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 25.6 x 13.8 inch
£8,312
Animal farm fatal
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Painting - 55 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,617
Golden dobberman
Phantom Art
Sculpture - 150 x 60 x 98 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 23.6 x 38.6 inch
£8,537
Bistiacephalus Heterosis 03
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Sculpture - 50 x 20 x 5 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 7.9 x 2 inch
£1,078
Songye Trophy Mask
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Sculpture - 27 x 17 x 5 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 6.7 x 2 inch
£1,078
Sterne qui plonge
Jean Lemonnier
Sculpture - 39 x 65 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 25.6 x 7.9 inch
£4,313
Bee Licious
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,696
Diamond Drops
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,696
La melée bleue - série mer et poissons
Sylvie Vandensteendam
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£557
Bidon Suricates F9 Rouge
Mauro Corda
Sculpture - 132 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 52 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
£8,087
Red Kite. Carreg Cennen, Wales
Christopher Hughes
Fine Art Drawings - 24.9 x 35.1 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
£462
Malvern Sparrowhawk
Christopher Hughes
Fine Art Drawings - 24.9 x 35.1 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
£453
Mandrill tattoo monkey
James Chiew
Sculpture - 110 x 90 x 130 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 35.4 x 51.2 inch
£17,523
N°1331 - Lion collection
Alikhan Abdollahi
Sculpture - 28 x 40 x 25 cm Sculpture - 11 x 15.7 x 9.8 inch
£674
La Chasse au Tigre (Ginestet-Pouillon 641)
Jacques Villon
Print - 36.8 x 48.3 cm Print - 14.5 x 19 inch
£4,217
Ours Bleu à Marinière Co. N°4
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 inch
£970
Suburban states
Barry Cawston
Photography - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£4,000
Dalmatian Pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 50 x 32 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
£189
Common Kingfishers - Alcedo atthis
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£189
European Roller - Coracias garrulus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 50 x 37 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 14.6 x 0.1 inch
£189
Common crane - Grus grus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 70 x 47 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
£243
Wolf - Canis lupus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 32.5 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£189
Lesser Spotted Eagle - Clanga pomarina and Hooded Crow - Corvus cornix
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£189 £170
White-tailed Eagle - Haliaeetus albicilla
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£189
Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£189
Black kite - Milvus migrans
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 32.5 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£189
European bee-eater - Merops apiaster
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£189
Au feu de la joie
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
£3,190
I always dreamed to be a Monster
Eric Ullrich
Painting - 91 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 48 x 1.2 inch
£2,516
Blue sweet monstrum
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 10.5 x 8 x 6 cm Sculpture - 4.1 x 3.1 x 2.4 inch
£170 £154
Sweet lion - Wild Serie
Paco Roum
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,876
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.