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La Licorne magnifique dans sa lumineuse constellation, étoilée
Danielle Balagé
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,675
The pink crocodile
José Luis Ceña
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,488
Chien entre deux chaises
Léa Dedieu
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$426
Cow peeing in sunset
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$516
White ghostly horses
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$516
Super fat cow
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$381
Italian Greyhound on Bark
Anne Juliette Deschamps
Sculpture - 29 x 18 x 61 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 7.1 x 24 inch
$4,488
Cows in the fog
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$381
Racines
Isabelle Goudin Pincin (Bizabo)
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$774
Please Look After This Bear
Gavin O'Donoghue
Painting - 39.9 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$595
open sea, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Andrei Petkevich
Painting - 73.7 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29 x 45 x 1 inch
$3,000
Trio ours Porsche red n° 2
André Gacko
Sculpture - 80 x 25 x 23 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 9.8 x 9.1 inch
$4,151
Trio ours Keith Haring co n° 2
André Gacko
Sculpture - 80 x 25 x 23 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 9.8 x 9.1 inch
$4,151
Le duo dansant
Marielle Ritlewski
Painting - 100 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,458
Close Friends
Tamar Sulakvelidze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$16,828
Arrivée de l'American Circus
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$1,346
Triturus dobrogicus
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 10 x 15 x 3.5 cm Painting - 3.9 x 5.9 x 1.4 inch
$348
Ixobrychus minutus I
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 12 x 16 x 3.5 cm Painting - 4.7 x 6.3 x 1.4 inch
$381
Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 10 x 25 x 3.5 cm Painting - 3.9 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$404
Araignée de mer (Maja squinado)
Teuthis
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,458
Le vol du colibri
Marielle Ritlewski
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$954
Liberté dans le pré n°3
Marielle Ritlewski
Painting - 60 x 30 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 2 inch
$673
La ferme au bœuf
André Boubounelle
Painting - 20.9 x 24.5 x 3 cm Painting - 8.2 x 9.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,468
Bocaux anatomiques n°40
Stéphane Belzère
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,283
Flying Dutchman
Andrei Petkevich
Painting - 99.1 x 149.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 59 x 1 inch
$3,280
Les 4 cavaliers de l’apocalypse
Yohan Storti
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$337
Skull, snake and rose
Karim Benchebra
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,346
Owl
Karim Benchebra
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,907
Jewel Tree, Rabbit
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 72.7 x 72.7 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.6 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
$6,170
Fancy Forest
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 91 x 116.7 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.8 x 45.9 x 1.2 inch
$14,585
Le marin et le poisson
Yannick Le Bloas
Sculpture - 23 x 16 x 13 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 6.3 x 5.1 inch
$331
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podaliricus)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$348
Girl with Dog
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$12,341
Toro mosaïque multicolore
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 75 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
$5,385
Toro mosaïque dominante bleu
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 75 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
$5,385
Ombre chinoise
Marie-Fa Lazzari
Photography - 48 x 33 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$539
Couple de grue cendré. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$898 $808
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
John Barney
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$4,350
Sleep of a tropical plant during the rain
Anna Bulkina
Painting - 80 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,150
Papa lion posant avec sa proie
Violaine Boisivon
Sculpture - 36 x 23 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 9.1 x 8.7 inch
$2,019
Le cris du démonique
Violaine Boisivon
Sculpture - 11 x 16 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 6.3 x 3.9 inch
$561
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.