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Un rêve éveillé
Florence Le Van
Photography - 25 x 19 x 1 cm Photography - 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.4 inch
$558
Sans titre #1, Série Qohelet
Dan Barichasse
Painting - 60 x 50 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$4,800
Dignity Colibri Red & Gold
Ernesto Yerena Montejano
Print - 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.1 cm Print - 8 x 10 x 0 inch
$222
Delantal. JT, Nimes, Francia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 110 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$13,228
Ganadería. Victoriano del Rio, Guadalix de la Sierra.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Santa Coloma. Fernando Robleño, Las Ventas.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Tafallera. Arturo Saldívar, Aguascalientes, México.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Verónica a pies juntos. El Juli, Manizales, Colombia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
JM Manzanares. Puerto de Santa María.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Pase de pecho a rodilla flexionada. JT, Nimes, Francia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
La Suerte Suprema. JT, Nimes, Francia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Por derecha. José Tomas, CDMX.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Antonio Corbacho. Finca de Gerardo Ortega, Santa Olalla del Cala.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Sans Titre
Mohammadi Zabihollah
Fine Art Drawings - 29.1 x 20.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.5 x 8.1 inch
$949
Birds of America | May 13 June 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$391
Cra-Cra-Cra
Riccardo Buonafede
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 35.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 inch
$346
Eléphant et son petit
Pierre Ilhat
Sculpture - 22 x 38 x 22 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 15 x 8.7 inch
$3,126
Le chat de la Famille Cercle
Karine Brüger
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,121
White Whale
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 150 x 90 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,791
Koi and butterflies
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,581
Koi fish and golden leaves
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$5,581
Koi fish 2
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$5,581
Station Sèvres-Lecourbe
Helen Uter
Painting - 116 x 89 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.6 inch
$4,465
Cloned chihuahua gold
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 30 x 35 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13.8 x 5.9 inch
$7,814
Nietzsche forever young, w/ Turin horse in Elysium
Diana Heit
Painting - 89.9 x 89.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,050
Sonny, are the apples sweet?
Anna Bulkina
Painting - 241.3 x 304.8 x 7.6 cm Painting - 95 x 120 x 3 inch
$4,050
Les zebres rouges red zebras
SLH Artiste
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,344
Bird and flower
Juffrouw Springtouw
Painting - 41 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,060
Bird in the city
Juffrouw Springtouw
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,060
In afterland (Pietro Longhi)
Lien Botha
Photography - 33 x 46 x 5 cm Photography - 13 x 18.1 x 2 inch
$1,340
In afterland (Piero di Cosimo)
Lien Botha
Photography - 33 x 46 x 5 cm Photography - 13 x 18.1 x 2 inch
$1,340
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$300
Green Lantern
Benjamin Olatunji
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$6,000
Copper Panther
Steve Chaudanson
Sculpture - 102.9 x 230 x 62.5 cm Sculpture - 40.5 x 90.6 x 24.6 inch
$58,046
Winking Blue Dog and Dancing Partner
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$547
Two blue dogs playing their joyful game in the warmest home
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$547
Les oiseaux sans Hitchcock
Zwy Milshtein
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$20,093
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.