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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Nu abstrait N°23 - Monstera palace Pièce N°6
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 45.5 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.9 x 11.6 x 0 inch
€680
Dentelle Panther
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 38 x 80 x 17 cm Sculpture - 15 x 31.5 x 6.7 inch
€56,700
A plate, from Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€3,680
Zebulun, from Twelve Tribes of Israel
Salvador Dali
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€4,860
Cheval impressionniste
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 28 x 38 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11 x 15 x 5.9 inch
€1,340
Giovane con il corvo
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€690 €621
Silent Sheep, Ancient Stone
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€5,396
Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 57 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.4 x 0 inch
€2,000 €1,700
L'Eléphant et le Singe de Jupiter
Salvador Dali
Print - 57 x 76 x 0.05 cm Print - 22.4 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,000
Father and Daughter
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 99 x 29 x 28 cm Sculpture - 39 x 11.4 x 11 inch
€14,900
The Soaring of Spirit
Karen Akhikyan
Sculpture - 39 x 18 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 7.1 x 9.1 inch
€1,098 €878
L'oiseau multicilore, aquagravure
Corneille
Print - 38 x 48 x 0.5 cm Print - 15 x 18.9 x 0.2 inch
€600
Modern Borrowed Scenery Lawson
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
€500
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 3
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
€1,055
Portrait de chien
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 17 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 6.7 inch
€650
Panthère sautant sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 7 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 2.8 inch
€3,500
Etincelles Marines - Gravure & Poésie
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€610
Bleu ballon de chien 12
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 12.5 x 3 x 12 cm Sculpture - 4.9 x 1.2 x 4.7 inch
€490
A Mysterious Horse - A tribute to the artist Uri Reisman
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,384
Chien béat sur nickel 59
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 59 x 55 x 21 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 21.7 x 8.3 inch
€8,400
Héron cendré
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 45 x 23 x 43 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 9.1 x 16.9 inch
€19,600
Petits polissons
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€880
Majestic Lion Sculpture
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 50 x 79 x 43 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 31.1 x 16.9 inch
€633
Wild kong red
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 150 x 115 x 65 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 45.3 x 25.6 inch
€39,800
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
€650
Jungle Happiness
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 130 x 190 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 1.6 inch
€3,300
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
€250
Éloigne toi
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€500
Skate Chanoir, Dégradation Tropicale
Chanoir
Print - 19.7 x 81 x 1 cm Print - 7.8 x 31.9 x 0.4 inch
€500
