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Peach blossoms bloom in spring, peaceful scenery
Hoang Phuong
Painting - 111 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 43.7 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,322
Ours Pop Art Panda 45cm Co. N°4
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 inch
£960
Draw the Table-Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,400
Draw a Table-Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,555
Draw the table Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,377
Draw a Table - Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,377
Draw a Table - Variation
Fan Hong
Painting - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£3,377
Draw The Table - The Secret Life
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£2,844
Evening talks (Conversations du soir)
Laura Makabresku
Photography - 18 x 30 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.8 inch
£289
Birds of America | June 7 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 20 x 32 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
£311
Untitled 9 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
£3,317
All Words White
Anne Juliette Deschamps
Sculpture - 35 x 23 x 45 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.1 x 17.7 inch
£3,110
UrbanCat Porcelain edition
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 21 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
£2,133
Composition au canard
Michel Narbonne
Sculpture - 30 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£178
Vicious Black-end Bull Symbol
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 150 x 90 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£5,066
Shadow of the Inevitable!
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 150 x 90 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
£5,066
Italian Greyhound on Bark
Anne Juliette Deschamps
Sculpture - 29 x 18 x 61 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 7.1 x 24 inch
£3,555
Mass Extinction 6 - In pieces
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 100.1 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,243
Butterfly Bombshell
Helder Batista
Sculpture - 100 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
£10,665
Triturus dobrogicus
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 10 x 15 x 3.5 cm Painting - 3.9 x 5.9 x 1.4 inch
£275
Ixobrychus minutus I
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 12 x 16 x 3.5 cm Painting - 4.7 x 6.3 x 1.4 inch
£302
Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 10 x 25 x 3.5 cm Painting - 3.9 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
£320
South of Taos, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.2 inch
£1,717
Tortue aux yeux verts
Herve Guibert
Sculpture - 20 x 50 x 40 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 19.7 x 15.7 inch
£622
Rhino #5 - One of the big five
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 119.4 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 47 x 39 x 0.7 inch
£1,781
Parrot bliss
Rinalds Vanadzins
Painting - 89.9 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
£2,198
Les dauphins
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
£21,329
Les méduses II
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 162 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£21,329
La case aux oiseaux
Stéphane Foucaud
Painting - 96.5 x 78 x 4 cm Painting - 38 x 30.7 x 1.6 inch
£1,258
Sao Kikko Bingo
Stéphane Foucaud
Painting - 100.5 x 88.5 x 4 cm Painting - 39.6 x 34.8 x 1.6 inch
£1,407
Two dogs and two columns-2
Koh Gi
Painting - 91 x 116.8 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 46 x 1.2 inch
£6,265
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podaliricus)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£275
Calosoma sycophanta
Amandine Golle
Fine Art Drawings - 122 x 58 cm Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 22.8 inch
£755
Gargaphia tiliae
Amandine Golle
Fine Art Drawings - 122 x 58 cm Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 22.8 inch
£453
Les Blancs de Camargue
Georges Corominas
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£11,509
Fantasia à Meknès
Georges Corominas
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£17,525
Quatorze
Emeline Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£3,110
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.