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From the Portfolio of Six Rêves Peints 4
Corneille
Print - 76.2 x 55.9 cm Print - 30 x 22 inch
€1,455
Dos rond EA II/IV
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 41 x 37 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 14.6 x 7.9 inch
€15,000
Les Goélands
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€160
Le Roi de la baie
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€160
September 13, cows at the Mont Gerbier de Jonc
Anne Baudequin
Painting - 61 x 91.9 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,843
Marmot Gold Porcelain Edition
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 27 x 30 x 17 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 11.8 x 6.7 inch
€600
Vegan Rule - Fur coat for you or life for him?
Kat Zhivetin
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€437
Carter Visiting Rothko...
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 60 x 45 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,067
Coral Sea reeffish patterns
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€825
Coral Sea Conservation Underwater
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 38 x 0.1 inch
€951
Riding the Wind
Anthony Horth
Photography - 50.8 x 71.1 x 1 cm Photography - 20 x 28 x 0.4 inch
€728
Végas pop art Miami
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 45 x 30 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€1,180
Grace and power under pressure (Green)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 46 x 61 cm Print - 18.1 x 24 inch
€550
Colombe sur Lit de Paille (Dove on a Straw Bed) (variant)
Pablo Picasso
Print - 31.8 x 38.1 x 3.8 cm Print - 12.5 x 15 x 1.5 inch
€17,463
Spirit of the Wild
Drew Doggett
Photography - 92.7 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36.5 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€3,638
Spirit of the Wild
Drew Doggett
Photography - 69.9 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€2,280
Cascade of White
Drew Doggett
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€3,638
Uncharted
Drew Doggett
Photography - 60.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.75 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€3,638
Le mystérieux feu du renard roux
Catherine Clare
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€650
Les toutous de la rue Taylor
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€300
A gray sheep's head
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,910
Ocean Escape
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.1 inch
€2,280
Panthère miniature Born Wild
Richard Orlinski
Design - 3.3 x 8.8 x 2.2 cm Design - 1.3 x 3.5 x 0.9 inch
€590
Banksy turtle silver II
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
€1,100
Keith haring turtle
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
€1,100
Banksy turtle silver II
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
€1,100
Minotaure Escape Game
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€420
Oiseau debout medium size
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€790
A Brand New Day Edition
Sumit Mehndiratta
Print - 53 x 76 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€700
Kleine pup met krulstaartje (Small pup with curly tail)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 12 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
€750
Les Petits éléphants assis en équilibre
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 53 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
€4,800
Tauromachie aux papillons (1)
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54.5 x 0.02 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
€1,200
Cloned gold Penguin with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 148 x 65 x 77 cm Sculpture - 58.3 x 25.6 x 30.3 inch
€12,000
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.