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La burette du singe
Bruno Mallart
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 27 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 10.6 x 1.6 inch
£2,222
La peur des maths (et comment la soigner)
Bruno Mallart
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 27 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 10.6 x 1.6 inch
£2,222
Painting in frame "Seven elephants of happiness/Still life with elephants" Natalie Shiporina
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
£2,577
Kids with cows
Ken Heyman
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 1.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.5 inch
£3,317
Washington Square Park, 1985 - Hipshot Series
Ken Heyman
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 1.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.5 inch
£3,317
Not a balloon dog
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,110
Abondance des coraux et des poissons n°26 - série fond marin
Moniq
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,400
La Valse des herbes marines n°27 - série fond marin
Moniq
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£3,004
Émotion… (Origami)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
£1,777
White tiger - handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 14 x 30 x 7 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 11.8 x 2.8 inch
£140
Jeux de ficelles
Véronique Clanet
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
£4,621
Yellow and Blue Dog, and Extraordinary Tulips
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£435
Orange Buttefly
Elena Mardashova
Painting - 100 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£747
Yellow Butterfly on the Rose
Elena Mardashova
Painting - 100 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£604
Rêve du paradis marin - série fond marin
Moniq
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,400
Plongée sous-marine - série poissons et coraux
Moniq
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,400
Coeur des mers et des océans - série poissons et coraux
Moniq
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,400
White Horse in Landscape
Jarmila Kostliva
Photography - 77 x 77 x 0.2 cm Photography - 30.3 x 30.3 x 0.1 inch
£498
Sans Titre - Renne
Meteo Meteo
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
£89
It's this days..
Vaios Paraskevas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,284
Is there anything to eat ?
Vaios Paraskevas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,711
The white rabit after he had a chat with hookah the smoking caterpillar
Vaios Paraskevas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,284
Electro energized budger
Vaios Paraskevas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,284
Hyper frustrated fish
Vaios Paraskevas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£2,284
Shadows of No Doubt
Syndi Kahn
Painting - 120.5 x 90.5 x 4 cm Painting - 47.4 x 35.6 x 1.6 inch
£3,905
Just Postmodern...
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 90 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 0.9 inch
£5,243
The Little Button Quail
Louise Hamill
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£2,284
Sans titre
Meteo Meteo
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
£93
Baby Bull terrier
Jean-Michel Pradel-Fraysse
Sculpture - 40 x 20 x 25 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.9 x 9.8 inch
£3,999
Cambio de Mano. AT.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 110 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
£10,531
David Mora. Sevilla.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£6,976
Still life for bird temple #8
Mark Gaskin
Painting - 53.3 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 21 x 24 x 2 inch
£3,317
Still life for bird temple #5
Mark Gaskin
Painting - 53.3 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 21 x 24 x 2 inch
£3,317
Petite Nishikigoi Elegance in Metal Orange : Mizu no Kasai Whispers
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 40 x 47 x 63 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 18.5 x 24.8 inch
£11,998
ELEGANT SUMOCAT : YELLOW DANCE AND BATTLES OF BALANCE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 70 x 80 x 50 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 31.5 x 19.7 inch
£13,331
PETITE RADIANCE : PANDASAN’S AZURE BRILLIANCE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 55 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
£18,663
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.