Arrivée de l'American Circus
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
£1,066
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Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
£1,066
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£755
Painting - 60 x 30 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 2 inch
£533
Painting - 20.9 x 24.5 x 3 cm Painting - 8.2 x 9.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,955
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£4,977
Painting - 99.1 x 149.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 59 x 1 inch
£2,720
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
£267
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£1,066
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£1,511
Fine Art Drawings - 72.7 x 72.7 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.6 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
£4,888
Fine Art Drawings - 91 x 116.7 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.8 x 45.9 x 1.2 inch
£11,553
Sculpture - 23 x 16 x 13 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 6.3 x 5.1 inch
£262
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£9,776
Sculpture - 75 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
£4,266
Sculpture - 75 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
£4,266
Painting - 32 x 100 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.6 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
£338
Photography - 48 x 33 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.4 inch
£427
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£711
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
£3,608
Painting - 80 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,783
Sculpture - 36 x 23 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 9.1 x 8.7 inch
£1,600
Sculpture - 11 x 16 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 6.3 x 3.9 inch
£444
Painting - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
£13,331
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.8 x 0.101 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
£469
Sculpture - 40 x 20 x 16 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.9 x 6.3 inch
£7,554
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
£489
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£3,110
Sculpture - 27 x 37 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 14.6 x 5.5 inch
£7,110
Sculpture - 64 x 39 x 30 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 15.4 x 11.8 inch
£14,219
Sculpture - 60 x 50 x 35 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 19.7 x 13.8 inch
£15,997
Sculpture - 29 x 10 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 3.9 x 7.9 inch
£4,888
Sculpture - 19 x 58.5 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 23 x 3.9 inch
£8,887
Sculpture - 41.5 x 33.5 x 14 cm Sculpture - 16.3 x 13.2 x 5.5 inch
£7,998
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
£2,400
Painting - 76 x 102 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.2 x 0.4 inch
£1,889 £1,323
Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 26.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.7 x 10.4 x 0 inch
£320
Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.5 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£355
Painting - 53 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£415
Photography - 75.6 x 55.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 29.75 x 21.75 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
Photography - 67.3 x 87.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26.5 x 34.5 x 0.1 inch
£3,317
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.