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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Tilolo

Swoon Song

Ours debout royal green

My French Bulldog is Happy

L'art de la conversation

Sans-titre

Jurassic Piaf

Cloned gold Penguin with pet bottle

Dans la brume

Horse

Wolf Spirit

Ours Pompon x Orlinski silver edition

Fish

Kong Rose

Wild Kong Reloaded

Untitled

Horses on the beach

Toro

Oiseau bleu polaire et étoile

Oiseau et lune fire rouge

Hidden street cat, série Chat-mouflage

WILD KONG 80 TAG mat

Roaring lion silver edition

L'ourse et ses deux oursons

Panther bubble - Green Edition

Panther matt black edition

Banana Jungle

Kong oil shade edition

Fly#7

Elephant Spirit

Kong Hammer

Rhino Spirit

Kong Origin

Bear Bubble

Ours Pompon Gold

Panda Spirit Orange Edition

Croco Red

727 Fatman Little Boy

Birds

Afternoon Chat

Polar bear white

T-rex Electric blue

Don quichotte, from the series Les Chevaux Daliniens

Neptune, from the series Les Chevaux Daliniens

The Mythology Argus Color

Tauramachie Surrealiste The Giraffe on Fire

Panda Love

Retro

35cm Teddy Lamborghini Tribute, black

Kong spirit c. green

Procris

Teddy CH Tribute

Coquilles Saint-Jacques 10-24

Françoise Sagan

White butterfly, bronze stripe

Tête de lion 35-23

Eléphant 50-19

Martre 33-18

Munny Cameleon

Tuileries

Le Choc des titans - ours Orlinski/Pompon

Couple de grue cendré. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie

Iznogoud

Raw Bleu

Ours Pompom Silver Edition

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