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Pélican au grand bec
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 5.9 inch
€2,250
The Woman with the Gulls
Alain Le Chapelier
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€780
Princesse de la jungle
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,200
Freedom... (Origami 2024)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€3,500
Viva la vida No.11
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 40.1 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€271
Crow and key of heaven
Dervis Akdemir
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€486
Spirale de Fibonacci 9
Lillia Baudo
Painting - 92 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,250
Odieuse créature
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€650
Koomote three: Koi attack
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
€1,550
Un peu plus près du paradis
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€2,700
Eiko La Crécerelle
Virginie Chardon
Sculpture - 43 x 36 x 24 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 14.2 x 9.4 inch
€6,100
Sans titre (Chien)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 75 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,800
Dolce Vita 21
Aimee Hillman
Photography - 61 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 18 x 0.1 inch
€2,187
Ours rouge et bleu Nuit - Pop Art Chanel 45cm Co. N°4
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 inch
€1,180
L'étalon Coral
Frédéric Schmied
Fine Art Drawings - 48.8 x 42.3 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.2 x 16.7 x 0.1 inch
€587
Copper Panther
Steve Chaudanson
Sculpture - 102.9 x 230 x 62.5 cm Sculpture - 40.5 x 90.6 x 24.6 inch
€52,000
Hipolyte le Morse
Virginie Chardon
Sculpture - 77 x 44 x 32 cm Sculpture - 30.3 x 17.3 x 12.6 inch
€7,700
Girl with the taurus
Nico Vrielink
Painting - 55 x 155 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 61 x 0.8 inch
€4,950
Le repos des cavaliers sur la plage
Yves Brayer
Print - 49.5 x 64.5 cm Print - 19.5 x 25.4 inch
€400
Le Chien qui Lâche sa Proie pour l’Ombre
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 55 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Le Soleil et les Grenouilles
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 55 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Smart Cat
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 69 x 69 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.2 x 27.2 x 0 inch
€2,418
Papillons Printanier
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€299 €210
Sheep Near Shannon, Ireland
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.04 inch
€3,869
Dove, San Luis Obispo
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.04 inch
€3,869
Mollige pup (Chubby puppy)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 40 x 22 x 44 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 8.7 x 17.3 inch
€3,450
October Piggy
Alexander Sviyazov
Sculpture - 30 x 43.5 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 17.1 x 7.9 inch
€10,000
Piaf Bleu turquoise laqué
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€290
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.