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Dirty Harry on the Buffalo Trail (I know what you're thinking... punk)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 76 x 61 cm Photography - 29.9 x 24 inch
$3,500
Stroll / Balade
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 40 x 32 x 26 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 12.6 x 10.2 inch
$6,630
Koi fish 1
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,742
Black cat in the City
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$10,888
Cow drinks water
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$11,237
Dark cow by the road
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,237
Le Chat
Serge Van de Put
Sculpture - 400 x 700 x 200 cm Sculpture - 157.5 x 275.6 x 78.7 inch
$56,184
Blue-bearded helmet crest
Shawn Smith
Sculpture - 39 x 28 x 41 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 11 x 16.1 inch
$9,102
Landende uil No.6
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 42 x 46 x 22 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 18.1 x 8.7 inch
$11,518
2020 n°5/8
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 38 x 90 x 34 cm Sculpture - 15 x 35.4 x 13.4 inch
$28,092
Flamant rose
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 80 x 103.6 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 40.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,236
Alice dans la maison du L. Blanc
Wabé
Sculpture - 130 x 54 x 27 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 21.3 x 10.6 inch
$5,394
A Dog on the Beach
Ventzislav Dikov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,922
Il guerriero del sole
Lorena Fonsato
Painting - 23 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.1 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$124
Puma allongé EA IV/IV
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 80 x 75 x 75 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.5 x 29.5 inch
$31,463
Les poumons de la Terre
Amor de Agua
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,236
Sans titre (DED363323)
Cyril Réguerre
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 27 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
$101
Un ours plutôt bien léché
Peggy Cardoso
Painting - 22 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$416
Grâce africaine
Lee Berthille
Sculpture - 190.5 x 83.5 x 38 cm Sculpture - 75 x 32.9 x 15 inch
$6,180
Delirio Exótico #16
Paloma Castello
Photography - 119.9 x 82.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 32.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Untitled 18 (NY)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 112 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,000
Untitled 14 (NY)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 112 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,000
Cyanotypie Herbier sous marin N°1
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 100 x 148 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 58.3 x 0.6 inch
$1,438
118 Dragon of the past
Anita Agnieszka Edvinsson
Painting - 131 x 96 x 3 cm Painting - 51.6 x 37.8 x 1.2 inch
$26,406
Canned Koi Consumption/The Shopping Queen
Andrea Berthel
Print - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$775
Prayer for a possessed horse
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 120 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$6,967
Mr Chat Grand
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 50.5 x 39.5 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.9 x 15.6 x 2.4 inch
$3,596
Vermilingua kiss
Olga Oreshnikov
Painting - 90.2 x 90.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 35.5 x 35.5 x 1.5 inch
$4,922
Des chats de la musique et des fleurs
Chanoir
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$6,517
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.