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12 series - Wave and shell
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 45 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,571
Tortue avec stèle
Ivan Theimer
Sculpture - 79.5 x 17.5 x 13 cm Sculpture - 31.3 x 6.9 x 5.1 inch
$24,682
A view of the Park
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,100
Creature XXIX
Marcelo Suaznabar
Sculpture - 14 x 10 x 31 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 3.9 x 12.2 inch
$2,137
Give Me the Truth, Not Roses
Idorenyin Umana
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1 inch
$1,650
A pod of Killer Whale
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,700
La Fuerza
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 27 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$7,292
Le Poisson - Sculpture Raku animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 17 x 40 x 12 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 15.7 x 4.7 inch
$909
Queue de Baleine - Sculpture Raku animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 34 x 24 x 14 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 9.4 x 5.5 inch
$1,122
Queue de Baleine - Sculpture Raku animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 42 x 45 x 26 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 17.7 x 10.2 inch
$1,374
Pand'ours pop art Hermès
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$987
Obélisque, Place de la Concorde, Paris (Image du monde flottant)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 30 x 45.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.9 x 0 inch
$1,066
The Symphony Of Summer
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 70 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
The Etude Of Summer
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 70 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
Dog in a Chair
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,010
White Dog in Schönbrunn
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 26 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 10.2 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$898
Kong au baril
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 69 x 37 x 18 cm Sculpture - 27.2 x 14.6 x 7.1 inch
$26,365
La tortue lutte
Gaelle Beyaert
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 22 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$325
La Poule blanche (Russie), série 1991-2018
Irène Jonas
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$1,346
Live Each Day As If It Were Your First
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 55 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
$10,995
Harmony in Blue: Finding Peace Within, The Happiness Series: Exploring Inner Joy series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$954
Un Uomo e Due Cani
Luigi Iona
Painting - 74.5 x 54.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 29.3 x 21.5 x 0.1 inch
$101
Poisson Arlequin
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 92 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Poissons chirurgiens
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 101 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 39.8 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$1,335
Queen angel facing
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,055
Corail corne d'elan et poisson "gros yeux"
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,055
French angel and corals
Patrick Chevailler
Painting - 53 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Killer whales
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,700
France Miditirané
Jaber El Mahjoub
Painting - 100 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$954
35cm Teddy CH Tribute, Chrome White
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 11 inch
$1,313
The dance of the butterflies
Penyo Ivanov
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,515
Yellow-Grey Sheep
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,700
A gray sheep's head
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,000
Morning's breakfast
Anatoliy Stankulov
Painting - 90 x 123 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 48.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,292
Purr love, Sweet Home series
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$561
Le Cantique des oiseaux, Le Héron
Katia Kameli
Sculpture - 49 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$8,414
Golden Bull, Myths series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,178
Enchanted Ride, Myths series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$954
Bonding in Open Fields, The Happiness Series: Exploring Inner Joy series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$954
Sculpture Et Pied De Table Poulpe En Métal
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 70 x 100 x 100 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$1,851
Demi cheval en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 110 x 45 x 80 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 17.7 x 31.5 inch
$1,627
L'envol
Frédéric Balmefrezol
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 32 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 12.6 x 0.6 inch
$550
Sous l'eau
Frédéric Balmefrezol
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 25 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$438
Black Sheep 16 23
Eulogia Merle
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 inch
$505
Love and tenderness. Lions
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$673
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.