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Flamingo
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 69.9 x 79.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 31.4 x 1 inch
$1,700
Seagulls
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 59.9 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$1,600
Phantasmagory
Mariam Odishvili
Painting - 23.5 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.3 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,132
Sans titre
François Nasica
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 14.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.1 inch
$758
Crocodile Facette Tag
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 70 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 27.6 inch
$25,914
White Horse: Illumination
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 71.1 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Let's go faster
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 40.9 x 58.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.2 x 1 inch
$2,000
Swan_01
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,390
Zebra in turquoise, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Gardani Art
Painting - 119.4 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 47 x 39 x 0.7 inch
$1,800
Abstract Panther Gold
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 140 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 55.1 inch
$5,602
WILD KONG Crystal clear full fractal
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$45,152
Dissimulation VI
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,621
Bedouin Camel
Anthony Horth
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.2 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$1,100
KONG BARIL TAG 45
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 45 x 25 x 16 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 9.8 x 6.3 inch
$14,598
I Hissing
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$1,132
WILD KONG TAG 52
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$22,519
Coral Sea Conservation Diving Adventures
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 94 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 37 x 0.1 inch
$980
The black bird flies out of your sing with the fruit
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,924
Start your wandering journey
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,924
L'arrivée de la pluie
Luciana Benitez Renteria
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,263
Twintytwinty the Year Godzilla Came Over
Michael Alan
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.04 inch
$2,900
Le P'tit Kong
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$13,580
1985 Oiseau St John Perse Bird
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 38 x 28 x 0.4 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0.2 inch
$1,075
From the collection : Around about n°1220
Hamid Reza Fotouhi
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
$1,697
Éléphant de guerre, 1866
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 50 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,471
Couple de léopards jouant
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 98 x 68 x 66 cm Sculpture - 38.6 x 26.8 x 26 inch
$67,898
Les Salins aux flamands
Juan Benito
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$781
Léopard assis
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 90 x 55 x 40 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 21.7 x 15.7 inch
$31,686
Au commencement était le verbe
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,697
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.