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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Urban friends on week end, Série Chat-mouflage
Nagsoul
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€950
Cubiste Cheval Guernica Rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 28 x 12 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11 x 4.7 x 3.5 inch
€580
Les Caprices Pinces Princiers (Frank Hunter Authenticated)
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 74.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 22 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,673
My spring sounds even in this darkness
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 1 inch
€1,800
Chien Ballon apesanteur en nickel rouge 38
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 38 x 23 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
€580
Chien Ballon apesanteur en nickel bleue 38
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 38 x 23 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
€580
Cheval Cubiste de Guernica Grand Fonte du Bronze
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 56 x 25 x 20 cm Sculpture - 22 x 9.8 x 7.9 inch
€4,600
What's going on?
tizlu
Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.4 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€580
I will lead you to the light
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 1 inch
€1,800
Singes sages bleu
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 18 x 32 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 12.6 x 4.9 inch
€1,536
The Old Man and the Sea - The Fall
Salvador Dali
Print - 56 x 38 x 0.05 cm Print - 22 x 15 x 0 inch
€1,500 €1,350
The Old Man and the Sea - Dolphins
Salvador Dali
Print - 56 x 38 x 0.05 cm Print - 22 x 15 x 0 inch
€1,500 €1,350
The Old Man and the Sea - The Struggle
Salvador Dali
Print - 56 x 38 x 0.05 cm Print - 22 x 15 x 0 inch
€1,500 €1,350
Kong Christmas (Gold Edition 2024)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 19 x 13.5 x 7 cm Design - 7.5 x 5.3 x 2.8 inch
€510
Ours à pompon comme excuse Feu rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 19 x 35 x 13 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 13.8 x 5.1 inch
€1,210
Singes sages rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 18 x 32 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 12.6 x 4.9 inch
€1,536
New light... (Origami 2024)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
€800
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
€750 €675
Crocodile en bronze chromé
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 70 x 30 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
€41,000
For the first time I see myself so clearly
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 1 inch
€1,600
Climate Clash - (blanc)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 60.96 x 60.96 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 24 x 0.1 inch
€500
Modern Borrowed Scenery Commute
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 41 x 41 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
Singes Sages Nickel
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 18 x 32 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 12.6 x 4.9 inch
€1,536
Companion Blush (Flayed)
Kaws
Sculpture - 27.3 x 11.4 x 7 cm Sculpture - 10.7 x 4.5 x 2.8 inch
€2,048
Kong Golden Christmas Edition
Richard Orlinski
Design - 18 x 14 x 8 cm Design - 7.1 x 5.5 x 3.1 inch
€519
Les oiseaux voyageurs
David Jamin
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,080
Les oiseaux voyageurs
David Jamin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Expand Oiseau et Lune
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 46 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€1,140
Edition Le Regard du Tigre 30
Miguel Guía
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€380
Just Love... (Origami 2024)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
€800
Bear with three fishes
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 27 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
€2,700
Axel and his elephant
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 19 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€2,600
My Favourite Horse
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 21 x 23.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 9.3 x 3.1 inch
€3,900
Guitariste Arlequin Grand Bois
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 53 x 31 x 25 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 12.2 x 9.8 inch
€4,980
Geometric dove (black tile)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 15 x 15 x 1 cm Print - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
€595
Geometric dove (blue tile)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 15 x 15 x 1 cm Print - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
€595