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Mademoiselle Sayana
Angelika Zorigt
Painting - 50 x 39.5 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Bear CD Tribute, Blue Collar
Naor
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 3.5 inch
€1,150
Passereaux trépassés 9 : Fauvette à tête noire 4
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€380
Passereaux trépassés 8 : Merlette
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€380
Passereaux trépassés 7 : Rouge gorge
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€380
Passereaux trépassés 6 : Fauvette à tête noire 3
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€380
Passereaux trépassés 5 : Martinet noir
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€380
Passereaux trépassés 4 : Fauvette à tête noire 2
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€380
Passereaux trépassés 3 : Fauvette à tête noire
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€380
Passereaux trépassés 2 : Sittelle
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€380
A veces se nos olvida
Richard García
Painting - 170 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€8,570
Quiero, quiero, quiero
Richard García
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€5,710
Chris Morin-Eitner - Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€180
La crypte
Thierry Van Quickenborne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Tête de cheval
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 101 x 60 x 36 cm Sculpture - 39.8 x 23.6 x 14.2 inch
€45,000
Juste un Bisou
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 40.6 x 46.5 x 0.5 cm Photography - 16 x 18.3 x 0.2 inch
€1,545
Jasminum grandiflorum
Ksenia Milicevic
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,200
Flying Dragon Floating Cloud
Hongda
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€2,180
Le taureau qui danse
Pierre Gimenez
Sculpture - 41.5 x 11 x 26 cm Sculpture - 16.3 x 4.3 x 10.2 inch
€950
Cheval Cubiste de Guernica
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 28 x 12 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11 x 4.7 x 3.5 inch
€580
Bird III
Vincent Champion-Ercoli
Sculpture - 103 x 40 x 36 cm Sculpture - 40.6 x 15.7 x 14.2 inch
€19,000
Ours à pompon comme excuse Feu rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 19 x 35 x 13 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 13.8 x 5.1 inch
€1,210
Metamorphosis in azure
Zhirayr Khachatryan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€435
Cheval impressionniste
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 28 x 38 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11 x 15 x 5.9 inch
€1,340
"Scorpion fâchée" figuratif animal acrylique sur lin 38x48cm 2009
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 38 x 48 x 3 cm Painting - 15 x 18.9 x 1.2 inch
€900 €810
Dynaste Hercule (1)
Edouard Martinet
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 5 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 2 inch
€12,000
Héros de l'ombre #5
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,400
Héros de l'ombre #2
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,250
Bird on the Branch
Schagen Vita
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€200 €160
Passion in lively red
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.6 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
€220
Ourson Bulles white
Elodie Dengreville
Sculpture - 20 x 12 x 7 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 4.7 x 2.8 inch
€800
Meeting between two worlds. Three Mirrors
Paloma Castello
Sculpture - 61 x 120.7 x 2.8 cm Sculpture - 24 x 47.5 x 1.1 inch
€3,863
Whispers of the autumn forest
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 62 x 77 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 30.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Vive les customisations II
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 20 x 10 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.9 x 4.3 inch
€180
Tears of Cihuacoatl
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 140 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€5,820
Amando a mi prójimo
Rodo Padilla
Sculpture - 27 x 27 x 37 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.6 x 14.6 inch
€4,000
Blossom and bird song
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€290
The pigeon man
Mourad Cherifi
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.02 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,350
The saga of samuraicat’s hanko, silver
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 90 x 90 x 20 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 35.4 x 7.9 inch
€7,500
The saga of samuraicat’s hanko, black
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 90 x 90 x 20 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 35.4 x 7.9 inch
€7,500
Samuraicat prowess : luminous blade sketch
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€8,500
Urbancat gleam : cityscape light sketch
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€8,500
Whispers of the deep: intertwined desires – homage to hokusai’s legacy 2
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 50 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 19.7 inch
€21,000
Couleurs et formes du monde - Golden Horses
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
€900
The Lonely Bird Still Sings
Mark Hunter
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 1.3 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.5 inch
€5,794
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.