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Crépuscule des Loups
Christine Pultz
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,821
Source de Lumière
Christine Pultz
Painting - 81 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$9,094
Concerto di Fenicotteri
Christine Pultz
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,821
Il guerriero del sole
Lorena Fonsato
Painting - 23 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.1 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$125
Five cakes and two fish
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 150 x 240 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 94.5 x 1.6 inch
$37,286
Le Loup 2002 The Wolf
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 69 x 54 x 0.75 cm Painting - 27.2 x 21.3 x 0.3 inch
$10,799
Assiette de poissons
Edouard Arthur
Painting - 33.5 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13.2 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,481
Cachalots (2)
Franck Seguin
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$5,115
Portfolio 12th Anniversary of Galeria Joan Prats
Perejaume
Print - 36 x 56 cm Print - 14.2 x 22 inch
$512
Meeting between two worlds. Three Mirrors
Paloma Castello
Sculpture - 61 x 120.7 x 2.8 cm Sculpture - 24 x 47.5 x 1.1 inch
$4,000
Stroll / Balade
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 40 x 32 x 26 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 12.6 x 10.2 inch
$6,707
Black cat in the City
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$11,015
Black Tip Shark
Christopher Schulz
Sculpture - 28 x 68.6 x 28 cm Sculpture - 11 x 27 x 11 inch
$13,641
Cow drinks water
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$11,368
Dark cow by the road
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,368
Hypomnema 4
Ivan Castiblanco
Sculpture - 74.9 x 74.9 x 33.8 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 29.5 x 13.3 inch
$2,500
Stepping into the unknown
Martin Wojnowski
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$284
A giraffe drinking
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 140 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$8,526
An amber mare
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,389
Tears of a striped elephant
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 130 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$9,094
Prayer for a possessed horse
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 120 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$7,048
Le Chat
Serge Van de Put
Sculpture - 400 x 700 x 200 cm Sculpture - 157.5 x 275.6 x 78.7 inch
$56,838
Blue-bearded helmet crest
Shawn Smith
Sculpture - 39 x 28 x 41 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 11 x 16.1 inch
$9,208
Still life with bird and lamp
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$450
Sculpture Shetani Fermier
Agostino Malaba
Sculpture - 54 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,842
Equestrienne 3, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50.8 x 61 x 1.3 cm Painting - 20 x 24 x 0.5 inch
$501
A Day at the Races (Blue)
Alexander Levich
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,410
A Day at the Races (Yellow)
Alexander Levich
Painting - 60 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,410
Romantic Meeting
Alexander Levich
Painting - 75 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,410
Over in the Meadow
Inga Makarova
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,945
Curious (Mousehole)
Inga Makarova
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,684
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.