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Allegory fish
Dimitar Mitov - Komshin
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,850
Strictly viewed, everyone is here
Galia Chuntova
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€890
Snail / l'escargot
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 44 x 14 x 19 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 5.5 x 7.5 inch
€3,200
La visite des lapins
Barbara Petit Lisy
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,068
colors festival bulldog
Priscilla Vettese
Sculpture - 24 x 14 x 12 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.5 x 4.7 inch
€300
Taureau en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 180 x 70 x 270 cm Sculpture - 70.9 x 27.6 x 106.3 inch
€4,150
The latent desire
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,385 €2,877
pretty bulldog
Priscilla Vettese
Sculpture - 10.5 x 24.5 x 18.5 cm Sculpture - 4.1 x 9.6 x 7.3 inch
€290
L'arbre et les merles
Yves Lévêque
Painting - 162 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€9,500
Bou del Tassili caminant / Walking Tassili Bull
Martí Rom
Sculpture - 35 x 22 x 22 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 8.7 x 8.7 inch
€1,500
Underwater Painting Red Expression was made underwater
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 30 x 45 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.7 inch
€650
Cavallet de la vall (Valley Horse)
Martí Rom
Sculpture - 44 x 45 x 10 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 17.7 x 3.9 inch
€1,700
Bou del Tassili rumiant (Ruminating Tassili Bull)
Martí Rom
Sculpture - 22 x 28 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 11 x 5.9 inch
€1,300
Viento en Casa
Anaiis Lee
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
1954 Le Coq The Peacock
Kam Zin Choon
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 48 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 18.9 x 0.2 inch
€1,950
1955 Le coq The peacock
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 32 x 23 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.1 x 0.2 inch
€1,950
1988 Oiseau Bird Show Thy force
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 28 x 38 x 0.5 cm Print - 11 x 15 x 0.2 inch
€590
1985 Surréalisme Saint John Perse
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 38 x 28 x 0.5 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0.2 inch
€850
Panthère en marche II
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 56 x 52 x 18 cm Sculpture - 22 x 20.5 x 7.1 inch
€16,000
Paris, Jockeys d'Auteuil Paris Horse Jockeys
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 29 x 38.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 15.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,950
Panthère s'étirant contre l'arbre
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 72 x 72 x 15 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 28.3 x 5.9 inch
€14,000
Making an entrance
Carley Cornelissen
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,450
Léopard descendant
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 67 x 90 x 23 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 35.4 x 9.1 inch
€18,000
Grande panthère assise
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 70 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
€40,000
Grand jaguar couché
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 65 x 114 x 36 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 44.9 x 14.2 inch
€40,000
Couple de léopards jouant
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 98 x 68 x 66 cm Sculpture - 38.6 x 26.8 x 26 inch
€60,000
Panthère sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 33 x 63 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13 x 24.8 x 7.9 inch
€16,000
Le dresseur des confins
Timothy Archer
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€6,500
Le souper d'Hécate
Timothy Archer
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€6,800
Hécate et le triple retour
Timothy Archer
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
€6,800
Deux walkyries, par un matin irisé
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€1,860
Ram portrait
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€580 €493
Ijsbeer met jong op de kop
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
€8,950
The yellow dog and the balloon
Milena Mladenova
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,250
Big Rain Cloud Bird I Großer Regenwolkenvogel
Gesa Reuter
Painting - 61 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€619
I will not cry anymore
Akio Harada
Painting - 40 x 40 x 5.1 cm Painting - 15.75 x 15.75 x 2 inch
€1,600
Little Bird Blues
Angelo Pioppo
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch
€580
Hare constellation
Iwona Sacharczuk Ivet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
Angel and devil
Iwona Sacharczuk Ivet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Flight over the sea
Lukasz Zalucki
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,120
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.