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Pépé Vignes
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 32 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
$961
Tattoo danish dog
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 130 x 40 x 115 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 15.7 x 45.3 inch
$6,729
Eclosion des fleurs série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$769
Fleurs de plumes série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$995
L’oiseau blanc série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$939
The eye of the earth
Shulan Wang
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,357
Coco - série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,108
Grand Duc aux chardons - série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,108
Ours blanc - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,059
La gourmandise et ses conséquences
Frieda Mouroum
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$679
Girl with a Lamb
David Popiashvili
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,600
L’ébouriffé ours - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$690
Dans la gueule de l'ours - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$690
Chien de Montagne rose fluorescent
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 42 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$565
At the Turn Ascot
David Hinchliffe
Painting - 101 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 39.8 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,236
Le berger
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 75.5 x 56.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 22.2 inch
$11,083
Miniatuur Giraffe
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 53 x 47 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 18.5 x 1.2 inch
$735
El Color Grana IV
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 35 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$215 $162
Bouledogue Français
Jean-Jacques Joujon
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 32 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 12.6 inch
$3,958
Terra Incognita - Icare
Guillaume Pépy
Photography - 105 x 70 cm Photography - 41.3 x 27.6 inch
$1,583
Manchots #2/8
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 34 x 36 x 30 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 14.2 x 11.8 inch
$13,005
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
$10,743
Forgiveness
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 33 x 2.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13 x 0.9 inch
$2,036
Chimi Moryo
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$1,923
Elephant with red ballon h cm 78
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 78 x 37 x 37 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 14.6 x 14.6 inch
$16,963
Contemplum #023
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 19 x 29 x 0.03 cm Photography - 7.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$735
Géographie improbable (jaune)
Chesca
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,040
WILD KONG TAG 52
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$22,505
Tiens, tiens et Filou ...
M.Chat
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$8,482
L'arrivée de la pluie
Luciana Benitez Renteria
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,262
Twintytwinty the Year Godzilla Came Over
Michael Alan
Painting - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 0.04 inch
$2,900
Éléphant de guerre, 1866
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 50 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,470
Liberté surveillée
Cécile Coutant
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,444
Gardienne de la Paix
Docteur Bergman
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$565
Socratis & ses 2 Papas
Docteur Bergman
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$679
Red-footed Falcon
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 24.2 x 32.3 x 2 cm Painting - 9.5 x 12.7 x 0.8 inch
$973
Rhinocéros
Valerian Sioridzé
Sculpture - 20 x 43.5 x 13.5 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 17.1 x 5.3 inch
$1,074
Tiger at Rest
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 30.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 11.9 x 0 inch
$679
Carnaval 1975 Saint Petersbourg Carnival
Mikhail Chemiakine
Print - 55 x 45 cm Print - 21.7 x 17.7 inch
$1,120
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.