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A Bird out of Merlin's Ear
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$2,383
Flight of the Bee
Lilith Tonakanyan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,000
Cool et vive les fleurs
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$503
Dedicated to Modigliani 2
Olga Marciano
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$783
Cuddles, Sweet Home series
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$671
Wolf Spirit (Pearl Grey Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 14 x 13 x 4 cm Design - 5.5 x 5.1 x 1.6 inch
$334
The baby Panda loves Pop Art
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,125
Panther Bubble (Green Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 9 x 20 x 4 cm Design - 3.5 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$446
Bagheera - étude de panthère assise
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 17 x 16 x 14 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 6.3 x 5.5 inch
$3,579
Reading a book with my FlatterFriend
Petra Dorst
Sculpture - 34 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$5,536
L'oiseau bleu - Symbolique et conscience collective
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$280
Little drop & Misty forever friends
Petra Dorst
Sculpture - 15 x 8 x 14 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 3.1 x 5.5 inch
$3,299
35cm Teddy Orange H Tribute
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 29 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 11.4 inch
$727
Contemporary portrait Contemporary portrait New Look for an Old Jacket
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,237
Panthère résine blanche 110 cm
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 55 x 110 x 22 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 43.3 x 8.7 inch
$21,810
Couleurs Urbaines 04 - Villejuif
Rodolfo Franchi
Photography - 70 x 100 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
$1,454
Animal Painting #012-0683
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,521
What did we do
Guillaume Nicolaou
Painting - 120 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,678
Three Whales 2
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$783
Caballo galopando
Carlos Hugo Lezcano
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$615
Vive les fleurs et les chats
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$559
Harmonie... (Origami 2024)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,474
The Starlings that weren't in the Chimney
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 50 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$1,192
Gaucho, Nomadic Horsemen VII
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 55.9 x 44.7 x 0.5 cm Photography - 22 x 17.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,600
Tailshot Polo Game
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$615 $523
Dogon cococrilo falso
Albert Gonzalo
Fine Art Drawings - 70.5 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,013
Tête de Lion III 6/8
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 30 x 21 x 27 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.3 x 10.6 inch
$6,152
Bondadoso
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 92 x 65 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 1.4 inch
$2,796
The girl in feather canyons
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 78 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 30.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$9,395
Poussières d'étoiles Oiseau
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$839
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.