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On the old quay
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 95 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 1 inch
€2,500
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
€1,269
Séduisante
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€400 €360
La magie des lucioles
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€300
Hérons, hérons petits, pas tapons
Peggy Cardoso
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€1,150
Free your mind
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€150
Sous le poirier
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 35 x 125 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 49.2 x 0.8 inch
€750
Mamahi - Portraits animaux sauvages - Girafe
Ezya
Painting - 160 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€750
Le chant des oiseaux (2)
Tung-Wen Margue
Painting - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
€1,600 €1,440
4 April Fishes - in Green
Christian Jodin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€495
PANDASAN’S PETITE BLOSSOM : EBONY SERENAD
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 50 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
€12,000
Winter Robin II
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€330
les cranquettes
Laurence Leccia
Painting - 267 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 105.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,600 €3,240
Dalmatian Pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 50 x 32 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
€210
Common crane - Grus grus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 70 x 47 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
€270
The City Keeper / Le gardien de la ville
Katarina Olympia Zaraj
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€555
Sacred Forest I
Fernando Alday
Fine Art Drawings - 81 x 130 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.9 x 51.2 inch
€3,100
Der Toro / Le Toro
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 90 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€650
Young, I lived in a little little house
Micowel
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€375 €300
Amazing Fantasy-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 33.5 x 24.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.2 x 9.6 x 3.1 inch
€420
Study of Lion
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 26.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.7 x 10.4 x 0 inch
€360
Dove, San Luis Obispo
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.04 inch
€3,818
Manifestation: Blue Birds
Eury Kim
Painting - 53 x 40.8 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
€740
L'approche
Tung-Wen Margue
Painting - 195 x 130 x 7 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 2.8 inch
€4,800 €4,080
Camouflage
Tung-Wen Margue
Painting - 130 x 195 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 2 inch
€4,800 €4,080
La Galopée Musicale
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,550
Is there anything to eat ?
Vaios Paraskevas
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€3,050
Baby Bull terrier
Jean-Michel Pradel-Fraysse
Sculpture - 40 x 20 x 25 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.9 x 9.8 inch
€4,500
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.