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.
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Char à bœufs dans le champ de maïs
José Antonio Da Silva
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€35,000
Pareja de guacamayos azules
Petterson Silva
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€8,000
Tiger, Tiger, Tiger...
Stras Bear
Painting - 200 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€22,000
Stupide
Jean-Jacques Ceccarelli
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€450
Pekingese Family of Dogs
Filiberto Vitaliano Rossi
Painting - 70 x 101 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.8 x 0.2 inch
€7,000
Wildebeest migration
Gabrielle Pool
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€7,372
Precencia magica de una serpiente
Henry Bermudez
Painting - 120 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
€17,000
All Around the World
Ray Richardson
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 120 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
Jocker
Vladimir Nemukhin
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€5,000
Positive Interactions Editions
Anthony Lister
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€300
Maci (Teddy Bear)
Szabolcs Bozó
Painting - 40.64 x 38.1 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€33,851
Elephant Clear Pink
Christopher Schulz
Sculpture - 13 x 17.8 x 9 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 7 x 3.5 inch
€1,900
Animal fantastique
Germain Van der Steen
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€850
Milarius Dogonarus
Michel Flamme
Sculpture - 48 x 26 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 10.2 x 11.8 inch
€2,300
Regards croisés, Trinidad, Cuba
Hervé FABRE
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Sam #8 – Sculpture résine pop colorée
Laurence Chiche
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 22 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 8.7 inch
€2,750
Escape - Série visuels décalés
Lotta
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€240
Lièvre à la déesse
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 40 x 39 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.4 x 7.9 inch
€1,200
Le loup DIEU THOT GOD The wolf
Jean-Pierre Malaussena
Fine Art Drawings - 53.5 x 28.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.1 x 11.2 inch
€1,250
Woman tending to her sheep in a rustic stable setting
Franck Brissot
Painting - 58 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 22.8 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
€4,823
Sapphire and Garnet
Patricia A Griffin
Painting - 182.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 72 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€19,198
Jelly-stic fish
Karl N’da Adopo
Photography - 90 x 110 x 3 cm Photography - 35.4 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Eléphantasme organique
Anis Dargaa
Sculpture - 36 x 29 x 12 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 11.4 x 4.7 inch
€18,000
Gallinacean III
Brigitte Chombart de Lauwe
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€680
Cloned Griffon Bruxellois With Pet Bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 7.1 inch
€1,400
Cloned Griffon Bruxellois with Pet Bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 7.1 inch
€1,400
Lion king, I'm the big boss
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,900 €3,510
Meilleur ami de l'homme
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 160 x 124 cm Painting - 63 x 48.8 inch
€3,700 €1,850
Panthère pattes croisées
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 56 x 70 x 45 cm Sculpture - 22 x 27.6 x 17.7 inch
€25,000
Giant of the Wild
Tigran Araqelyan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,226
On ne sait plus où on habite
Béatrice Terra
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
€6,350