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Happy Time
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,320
Les Secrets de l'Océan
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$620
Le pacte de l'oiseau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$568
Being is love 306
Christine Zanella
Painting - 25.4 x 25.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 10 x 10 x 0 inch
$739
Le confiné III
Romain Liverato
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$512
Horse BLACK BEAUTY
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$8,185
Le paradoxe du papillon
Iolanta Gondouin (Iola)
Painting - 250 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 98.4 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$9,094
On the way to Arcadia - I
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
Affinity, étude II
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 26 x 27 x 21 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 10.6 x 8.3 inch
$6,821
Woman and domestic dog
Patrick Villas
Painting - 145 x 127 x 2 cm Painting - 57.1 x 50 x 0.8 inch
$8,185
Leda and The Swan, Paris
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,800
Saudi Arabia. From the Mani series.
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 69.9 x 90.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 35.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,500
Happy Monkeys
Anastasia Kurakina
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,250
The extinction of the species
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Painting - 80 x 60 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$909
Deseo Insular XI
José Sierra
Photography - 101.6 x 62.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 24.71 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Deseo Insular II
José Sierra
Photography - 101.6 x 59.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 23.27 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Elefante
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$182
Vache avec fleur violette
Gouzy
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
$682 $614
Giant's Dust
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 89 x 3 cm Photography - 26.4 x 35 x 1.2 inch
$3,410
Sharing Nature
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 89 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$3,408
Nude elephant dust
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,115
L'Envol de la Vertu
Corine Lescop
Painting - 100 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,956
Series: The skin of Mars - Skin 10
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$2,842
Enfant à l'obélisque, marchant sur deux tortues
Ivan Theimer
Sculpture - 25 x 9 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 3.5 x 3.5 inch
$11,368
Untitled
Mauricio Velez
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$3,500
Les Bottes Rouges
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 162 x 114 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.6 inch
$6,821
Le lion de Némée 2
Jérôme Bouscarat
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$491
Femme au masque de singe
Alain Quercia
Sculpture - 36 x 9 x 5 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 3.5 x 2 inch
$4,092
S9 - Victoire de Samothrace
Yves Klein
Sculpture - 49 x 27.5 x 25 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 10.8 x 9.8 inch
Price upon request
Les Caprices de Goya de Dalì
Salvador Dali
Print - 45 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 12 x 0 inch
Sold
Feestbeest (Party animal)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 39 x 24 x 43 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 9.4 x 16.9 inch
Sold
Banksy-Picasso Metro Map of Paris
Fat
Painting - 37 x 37 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.6 x 14.6 x 0.1 inch
Sold
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.