My Lovely Dog
Virginia Benedicto
Sculpture - 45 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
$2,866 $2,580
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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Ours Pompon x Orlinski silver edition
Richard Orlinski
Design - 12 x 23 x 5 cm Design - 4.7 x 9.1 x 2 inch
$524
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
$1,638
Each in his turn / Chacun à son tour
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 86 x 73 x 26 cm Sculpture - 33.9 x 28.7 x 10.2 inch
$16,380
Sunset in Chitwan II
Viet Ha Tran
Photography - 70.1 x 104.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
Sold
Cloned Marmot with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 36 x 26 x 20 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 10.2 x 7.9 inch
$6,435
Echoes of the Past
Abgar Khachatryan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
Para que los cocodrilos duerman en largas filas
Josep Guinovart
Print - 47 x 49 cm Print - 18.5 x 19.3 inch
$468
En selle - Horseracing - Longchamp
Kalh Art Kalley
Painting - 29 x 42 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$608 $456
Birds. Happy together, landscape of the Volskay Lilya
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,170 $1,053
I have a dream, Photograph, C-Type
Viet Ha Tran
Photography - 125 x 94.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 49.2 x 37.2 x 0.1 inch
$7,000
Léopard assis
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 90 x 55 x 40 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 21.7 x 15.7 inch
$32,760
Visions of the Unseen
Harutyun Aghajanyan
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$380
Piaf Bleu turquoise laqué
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$339
Corn Snake and White Wedding Cake
Will Eskridge
Painting - 40.6 x 40.6 x 1.3 cm Painting - 16 x 16 x 0.5 inch
$700
James (white rabbit)
Austyn Taylor
Sculpture - 35.5 x 30.5 x 15.9 cm Sculpture - 14 x 12 x 6.3 inch
$3,510
Charles (blue bird)
Austyn Taylor
Sculpture - 28 x 42 x 17.8 cm Sculpture - 11 x 16.5 x 7 inch
$4,212
Playful Companionship
Armen Vahramyan
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,050
End Of The Dry Land
Yuko Montgomery
Painting - 60.7 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.9 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,500
The Creations 2
Yuko Montgomery
Painting - 45.5 x 53.1 x 2 cm Painting - 17.9 x 20.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,380
Seabed Dancing
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$4,839
La dernière cigarette
Zwy Milshtein
Painting - 140 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$11,700
L'arrivée de l'Oiseau de Feu
Marguerite Maliuga
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,053 $948
Big love. Bull
Ekaterina Khovanskaya
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Legendary Blue / Cassowary
Yuko Montgomery
Painting - 53.1 x 40.9 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,380
Grand prix de Formule 1
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 13 x 10.5 x 6 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 4.1 x 2.4 inch
Sold
La femme d'affaire
Zwy Milshtein
Painting - 100.5 x 66.5 x 2 cm Painting - 39.6 x 26.2 x 0.8 inch
$7,605
Struzzo Rubik
Stefano Bombardieri
Sculpture - 58 x 40 x 21 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 15.7 x 8.3 inch
$31,590
Georges et la Dragonne
Albena Vatcheva
Print - 143 x 119 x 0.01 cm Print - 56.3 x 46.9 x 0 inch
$515
Autoportrait aviaire
Hatem Akrout
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,340
