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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Le grand sage de la nature
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$292
Fujiya Hotel 2
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 72.7 x 60.6 x 4 cm Painting - 28.6 x 23.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,925
Fujiya Hotel 1
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 72.7 x 60.6 x 4 cm Painting - 28.6 x 23.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,925
The Lion Returns
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 72.7 x 60.6 x 4 cm Painting - 28.6 x 23.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,925
Modern Borrowed Scenery Iceberg House
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 x 4 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,925
Dentelle Panther
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 38 x 80 x 17 cm Sculpture - 15 x 31.5 x 6.7 inch
$66,339
A Moment of Rest
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,799
Black predator
Karen Akhikyan
Sculpture - 20 x 33 x 9 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 13 x 3.5 inch
$1,200 $960
Les trois grâce. Parc du Serengeti. Tanzanie.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$936
Troupeau de Buffles Agra. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$936
Famille de Lion en repos. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$936
Tigre du Bengale. Inde.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$936
Tigre du Bengale. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$936
Repos du guerrier et sa famille. Lionne et lionceaux. Afrique du Sud
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$936
Girafe dans le parc national du Serengeti en Tanzanie.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$936
Cheval Barbe 34-23
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 20 x 24 x 12 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 9.4 x 4.7 inch
$1,462
Apis mellifera (abeille)
Yoann Merienne
Sculpture - 21 x 18.5 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 7.3 x 3.7 inch
$2,223
Brachyura (crabe)
Yoann Merienne
Sculpture - 22.5 x 11 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 8.9 x 4.3 x 3.7 inch
$2,223
Sheep With Red Drinking
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 30 x 25 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1 inch
$1,591
Two Sheep Two Trees
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 30 x 25 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1 inch
$1,685
Carmen and Don José fleeing on horseback from The Opera Carmen
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$4,516
Chien Ballon apesanteur en nickel bleue
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 29 x 6.5 x 6.5 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 2.6 x 2.6 inch
$505
Dan, from the series Twelve Tribes of Israel
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$4,072
35cm Lambo Tribute, Green Teddy
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 11 inch
$759
35cm CH Tribute, bi color white and gold Teddy
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 11 inch
$760
Untitled, From the series Anatomías
Ana Seggiaro
Painting - 129.5 x 88.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 51 x 35 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
The Iron Horse - Le cheval de Fer
Belart Collective
Sculpture - 155 x 125 x 50 cm Sculpture - 61 x 49.2 x 19.7 inch
$2,925
Self- contentment
Svitlana Lazoriak
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$585
Colores de Colombia
Pablito Mourer
Painting - 130 x 97 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,211
L'échappée belle...
Olivier Messas
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,755
Wild Kong Reloaded
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 4.3 inch
$7,500
Ixobrychus minutus II
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 20 x 15 x 3.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 1.4 inch
$597
Blue & Green Sheep
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inch
$1,400
