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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Alice's Little Pill
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,529
Le Carrousel
Jean-Jacques Kugel
Sculpture - 80 x 40 x 16 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 15.7 x 6.3 inch
$5,616
Les villages de mon enfance
Albena Vatcheva
Print - 42 x 30 x 0.01 cm Print - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$116
Guardian of the Castle -, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Yuko Montgomery
Painting - 90.9 x 65.3 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 25.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,160
Guardian of the Shrine
Yuko Montgomery
Painting - 53.1 x 65.3 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 25.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,140
Reach Out For The Sun
Yuko Montgomery
Painting - 72.6 x 52.8 x 2 cm Painting - 28.6 x 20.8 x 0.8 inch
$3,380
Opossum's Oatmeal Stout
Will Eskridge
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$3,240
Le Lion
Jean-Philippe Ghiglione
Painting - 93 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,521 $913
Reciprocity 7
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,755
Reciprocity 8
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,111
Black Panther
Iwi Lahcen
Sculpture - 63 x 203 x 50 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 79.9 x 19.7 inch
$19,890 $17,901
The last huntsman
Ian Bradshaw
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,158
The Crawler 1
Yuko Montgomery
Painting - 40.9 x 40.9 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$12,920
"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
$1,053
Primal Ice Cream
Will Eskridge
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$3,240
Perspective d'animal
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.4 inch
$1,755
Série grands singes - 2/5
François Cognet
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,159
Antilope Kobo
Jean Poulain
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 95 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,041
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,521
Antilope
Jean Poulain
Fine Art Drawings - 99 x 80 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,041
Just The Way You Are (Bat)
Will Eskridge
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$400
Just The Way You Are (Triceratops)
Will Eskridge
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$400
Sheena Is A Pizza Rocker
Will Eskridge
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.5 inch
$500
Watermelon Daydreams
Will Eskridge
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch
$400
La Mouche - The Fly
Alex Konahin
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 33 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$2,340
Last Supper at Penscynor
Zena Blackwell
Painting - 80 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
$5,427
The Wish Granter
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,036 $3,632
Bird qui fait la sièste
Li Dongfeng
Painting - 34 x 34 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 13.4 x 0.4 inch
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