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Blue Moon Diamond Dust - Bunnies
Hunt Slonem
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 inch
$35,958
Bouquet printanier et canaris
Jean Jacques Boimond
Painting - 59 x 66 x 1 cm Painting - 23.2 x 26 x 0.4 inch
$688
Guspirus in the green
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 116 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 45.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,483
Ours Bleu à Marinière Co. N°4
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 inch
$1,214
Terra Incognita - Breathe
Guillaume Pépy
Photography - 70 x 105 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 inch
$1,573
Le champs de quinoa...
Patricia Henricy Cruzalegui
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$787
Retour de chasse au vase bleu
Charles Monnier
Painting - 73 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$860
Temptations of Elena
Galia Chuntova
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,405
Et Dieu créa le cheval
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 40 x 24 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.4 x 11.8 inch
$15,731
Hommage à Léonard de Vinci
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 60 x 60 x 50 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$21,912
Nestor du domaine
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 42 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
$12,360
Winter Robin II
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$371
La gardienne de mon coeur
Agnès Robin
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 inch
$1,710
Homar'ie si tu savais
Christopher Lecoutre
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$730
Ne regarde pas l'inutile
Caroline Huet
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,292
Eden
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 119.9 x 99.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.3 x 1 inch
$2,800 $2,520
Chevaux et renards celtiques - Composition papiers
Frédérique Hatier
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$506
Fontaine de Jouvence III
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 113 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 44.5 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
$4,095
Véranda IV
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 200 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$11,012
Rainbow unicorn - handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 38 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$301
Lièvre fleuri
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 34 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
$1,348
Lièvre au jardin
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 36.5 x 35 x 17 cm Sculpture - 14.4 x 13.8 x 6.7 inch
$1,348
Le Petit Prince et le serpent
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Print - 50 x 40 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
$281
La mouette chef d'escadrille
Timothy Archer
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$3,596
Diaphanous
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 99.8 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$4,000
Majestueuse féline
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 75 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,348
Bullfinch on a rowan branch
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.8 inch
$650
Unwanted Attention
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
$760
Pausing on the Trail
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
$760
Breaking The Surface
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
$760
All the beautiful rides
Amy Bernays
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.5 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.6 inch
$660
La famille avant tout
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$955
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.