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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
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
The inevitable lightness of not wanting to be
Aramis Justiz
Sculpture - 30 x 28 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11 x 7.9 inch
€1,600
Summer's Glory
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
€1,583
Grace and power under pressure (Green)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 46 x 61 cm Print - 18.1 x 24 inch
€550
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
Les toutous de la rue Taylor
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€300
Coral Sea reeffish patterns
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€816
Coral Sea Conservation Underwater
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 38 x 0.1 inch
€940
Riding the Wind
Anthony Horth
Photography - 50.8 x 71.1 x 1 cm Photography - 20 x 28 x 0.4 inch
€720
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
Anatomical study of the horse
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 36 x 43 x 12 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 16.9 x 4.7 inch
€4,385
Sinosaurusopteryx Prima
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 31 x 19 x 2 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,590
Wild trip
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€410
Vache Watusi
Salfo Dermé (Yabré)
Sculpture - 18 x 26 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 10.2 x 3.9 inch
€1,000
San Francisco Golden Bridge
Vianney
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Margot Endormie
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 21.5 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 11.4 inch
€500
White butterfly, bronze stripe
Svetlana Martin
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€750
Small Stainless Steel Bear 'Grace'
Irena Tone
Sculpture - 20.5 x 13.5 x 16 cm Sculpture - 8.1 x 5.3 x 6.3 inch
€650
Carter Visiting Rothko...
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 60 x 45 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,055
Mélisande lost her love Pelléas
Catherine Clare
Print - 77 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 30.3 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€585
OMO: Untitled 44
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€1,583
Grace and Power Under Pressure (Blue)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 46 x 61 x 0.5 cm Print - 18.1 x 24 x 0.2 inch
€450
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
Bonheur perpétuel... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
€600
Royal Selangor Arabesque Golden 400%
Bearbrick
Design - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Design - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
€4,500
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.