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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La Reine des neiges

Catch The Stars

Happy Hours

Chien Ballon apesanteur en nickel bleue

Ixobrychus minutus II

Cats

Red Bull

Silver Howling Wolf

Angel Bear

Sans titre

Fantasy Fantastic

Bassin du parc II

Colores de Colombia

A Little Song Of Twilight

Blue lion

Wild Kong

Panthère Rouge

Oiseau 2

Oiseau

La Poule

Drôles d'oiseaux

Homard

Red Fish

La vie en rose... (Origami 2025)

Self- contentment

Le chat

Up, Up & Up Yours

Horse

PRINTEMPS POUR LES POISSONS

Piaf révolution s rose fluo

Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle

Bride and Groom

Energy of Sunrise...

Prendre son envol...

Entangled World

Unicorn II/VII

Chat

Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel

We Are The Square Jocular Clan 8

We Are The Square Jocular Clan 10

We Are The Square Jocular Clan 2

Ma chatte est possessive !

Crocodile

Roi lion (plan du métro de Paris)

Deer

Eagle

Tête de lion III

Shiba

Golden Art - African DJ

Les yeux du chat

A Warm Welcome, no. V/VIII

Lynx

Welcome to the Circus

35cm Lambo Tribute, Green Teddy

Ours enlacés / Two bears entwined

G80049228C

Stream of Love

Aurum 2

Kong Oil Bubble (Red Edition)

Teddy Dior

Elm Court Fritillary

Red Hutch

Now Flyers

In Love

Gardenier

Gold Flight