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Bearded Reedling - Panurus biarmicus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
$236
Cloned Bloodhound with Backpack
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 57 x 30 x 37 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 11.8 x 14.6 inch
$2,472
Pesce nel paesaggio
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 75 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$899 $764
Mother and daughter
James Earley
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,175
Nature Lover
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 119 x 200 x 12 cm Sculpture - 46.9 x 78.7 x 4.7 inch
$17,192
Vegas PopArt Red Supreme
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 45 x 39 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15.4 x 17.7 inch
Sold
Vanité - série Art semi-abstrait
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,034
Pigeons - série Animaux
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,107
Big Gold Pigeon 7/25
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 13 x 19.2 x 9 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 7.6 x 3.5 inch
$663
Tête de tigre #1
Timothy Archer
Painting - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$1,573
Le chant des anges
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,057
European bee-eater - Merops apiaster
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 33 x 50 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 inch
$236
Cloned Marmot with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 36 x 26 x 20 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 10.2 x 7.9 inch
$6,180
Irlande - série Paysage
Marie-Thérèse Chanel
Painting - 24 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,011
La poursuite
Michaël Fok Bor
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,023
Marlin Azul "Deepwater"
Philippe Dias
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,854 $1,669
Spirit of the West
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.04 inch
$4,000
I'm Sorry But I Can't Promise It Wont Happen Again
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 56 x 0.01 cm Print - 29.5 x 22 x 0 inch
Sold
Star (3 rats) (#2/8)
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 17 x 40 x 47 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 15.7 x 18.5 inch
$10,675
WILD KONG TAG 52
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$22,361
Lucia and Tika
Cristina Fontsare
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,124
Assiette de poissons
Edouard Arthur
Painting - 33.5 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13.2 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,429
Stepping into the unknown
Martin Wojnowski
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$618 $494
Delirio Exótico #8
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Delirio Exótico #2
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
The Game of Forfeits Done
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$785
Ranas enamoradas
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Funny Pig-bottle stopper
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 5 x 4.5 x 3 cm Sculpture - 2 x 1.8 x 1.2 inch
$247
From the Series Tout-en-Karton II – Part 2
Khaled Hafez
Painting - 40 x 40 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$1,200
Gitans en tenues de festivité
Josep Serra I Santa Serranta
Painting - 65 x 81 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,065
L'Oiseau des Îles et les fleurs
Paul Mathey
Painting - 28.5 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 11.2 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,365
Les piplettes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$337
Dada - The test of the soul
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$6,742
Der Schauspieler / L'acteur
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$730
The Forest Within
Maral Djenazian
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$2,259
Sacred Forest I
Fernando Alday
Fine Art Drawings - 81 x 130 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.9 x 51.2 inch
$3,483
Horse and the child
Stavri Kalinov
Painting - 113 x 68 x 2 cm Painting - 44.5 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
$11,012
Au bon marché, Fontvieille, Sainte Marie de la Mer
Alois Wittlin
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$780
The Walker and his Mule, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50.4 x 90 cm Photography - 19.8 x 35.4 inch
$562
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.