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Doggy dog Bentley
L'Archange Di Roma
Sculpture - 45 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€1,013
Prendre de la hauteur
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€850
Colombe blanche White Dove
Zanoarisoa Rajaona
Print - 29.5 x 19.5 x 0.5 cm Print - 11.6 x 7.7 x 0.2 inch
€990 €495
Phillip is perplexed
Lilia Mazurkevich
Painting - 125 x 135 x 5 cm Painting - 49.2 x 53.1 x 2 inch
€9,761
Gallinacean III
Brigitte Chombart de Lauwe
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€680
Les oiseaux dans la neige
Christian Silvain
Painting - 80 x 70 x 8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 3.1 inch
€13,000
Koi anticipation XI
Peter Goodhall
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,875
Cheerful Morning
Jia Yuan Hua
Painting - 30 x 25 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
€2,600 €2,210
Papillons gold
Jean-francois Larrieu
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€10,000
Crypsis
Angelo Pioppo
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€490
En proie à de cruelles hésitations à propos de différentes choses.
Reinhoud d'Haese
Sculpture - 68 x 40 x 23 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 15.7 x 9.1 inch
€10,500
Lifestyle - Paper Cut
David Gerstein
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,700
Tigre attaquant un buffle
Henri Rousseau dit Le douanier Rousseau
Print - 56 x 75 x 0.1 cm Print - 22 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€200
The Palette Knife Of Spring
Alejandro Moretti
Painting - 60 x 35 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
€500
roofvogel met vis
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 70 x 48 x 60 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 18.9 x 23.6 inch
€14,750
Les deux amis et l'oiseau
Rebecca de Cachard
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,800
Cambodge, Prey Nup, Bantei Prey, jeune fille
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€650
Bye Bye Blackbirdds
Paula Montgomery
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.8 inch
€3,013
Between the bite and the beak, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Amy Bernays
Painting - 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0.1 inch
€923
Il était une fois
Maïté Martinez
Sculpture - 13 x 17 x 14 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 6.7 x 5.5 inch
€4,800
Black Minous
Chanoir
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.001 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€1,200
Crabes & Carapaces
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,800 €1,530
Strange Birds with a warm heart Nr 3 & 4
Jacqueline Schäfer
Painting - 30 x 48 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 18.9 x 1.6 inch
€1,000
Sticking to my post
Poren Huang
Sculpture - 33 x 42 x 53 cm Sculpture - 13 x 16.5 x 20.9 inch
€27,606
Libre comme l'air 2
Marielle Ritlewski
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
€1,400
Hotel Mermaid Club #2
Chris Rhodes
Photography - 10 x 8 x 0.2 cm Photography - 3.9 x 3.1 x 0.1 inch
€150
Mélodie pour deux chatons et piano
Albena Vatcheva
Print - 21 x 15 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0 inch
€39 €38
Fire's Bird
Brigitte Mathé
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,400 €1,190
Minotaure Escape Game
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€420
Beluga in mind
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,800
Nature's Sentinel: A Teddy Bear's Reverie
Abhishek Kumar
Sculpture - 61 x 61 x 61 cm Sculpture - 24 x 24 x 24 inch
€2,965
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.