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Ours à pompon comme excuse Feu rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 19 x 35 x 13 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 13.8 x 5.1 inch
$1,357
Sub Rosa
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 30.5 x 43.2 x 0.5 cm Photography - 12 x 17 x 0.2 inch
$1,500
André Villers Photograph of Picasso's Atelier
André Villers
Photography - 48.9 x 41.28 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.3 x 16.3 x 0 inch
$3,924
Bagheera - étude de panthère assise
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 17 x 16 x 14 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 6.3 x 5.5 inch
$3,588
Vive les customisations II
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 20 x 10 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.9 x 4.3 inch
$202
Dynaste Hercule (1)
Edouard Martinet
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 5 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 2 inch
$13,453
Le Cantique des oiseaux, Le Faucon
Katia Kameli
Sculpture - 33 x 17 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13 x 6.7 x 5.9 inch
$8,969
Ourson Bulles white
Elodie Dengreville
Sculpture - 20 x 12 x 7 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 4.7 x 2.8 inch
$897
The Song of Love
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,401 $813
Les Goélands
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
Le Roi de la baie
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
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
Asino in riflessione
Gianni Chiriatti
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,579 $2,321
The saga of samuraicat’s hanko, silver
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 90 x 90 x 20 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 35.4 x 7.9 inch
$8,408
The saga of samuraicat’s hanko, black
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 90 x 90 x 20 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 35.4 x 7.9 inch
$8,408
Samuraicat prowess : luminous blade sketch
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$9,529
Urbancat gleam : cityscape light sketch
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$9,529
Whispers of the deep: intertwined desires – homage to hokusai’s legacy 2
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 50 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 19.7 inch
$23,543
Tears of Cihuacoatl
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 140 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$6,525
Convergence animalière
Jean-Paul Jacquet
Sculpture - 40 x 70 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 27.6 x 5.9 inch
$1,570
Turtle Rolls-Royce
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 40 x 25 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 15.7 x 9.8 inch
$2,018
Fire and fury
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 120 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$4,484
Chat à sa toilette
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 68 x 32 x 27 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 12.6 x 10.6 inch
$7,848
Le Cantique des oiseaux, Le Rossignol
Katia Kameli
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 28 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 11 inch
$4,484
Le Cantique des oiseaux, La Bergeronnette
Katia Kameli
Sculpture - 28 x 5 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11 x 2 x 6.7 inch
$5,606
Le Cantique des oiseaux, La Huppe
Katia Kameli
Sculpture - 30 x 5 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 2 x 5.9 inch
$5,606
Lionne assise 7/8
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 32 x 25 x 22 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 9.8 x 8.7 inch
$6,054
Kaleidoscope 19
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$485
Animal Painting # 022-2061
Les Thomas
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$9,131
Vive les fleurs vertes
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 29 x 9 x 5 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 3.5 x 2 inch
$213
Monkey
Tony Jagas
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 90 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$8,000
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.