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Séjourner, ou le règne animal
François-Xavier de Boissoudy
Painting - 100 x 130 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 inch
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Le roi grenouille
Antony Squizzato
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
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Then Intelligent One - Play 3
Amogh Katyayan
Painting - 91.4 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 12 x 1.5 inch
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Mascara Jaguar / Woodcarving Alebrije Mexican Folk Art Sculpture
Manuel Jimenez (Taller)
Sculpture - 12 x 12 x 15 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 4.7 x 5.9 inch
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Hippo et son ballon rouge
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 88 x 62 x 28 cm Sculpture - 34.6 x 24.4 x 11 inch
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Alice In Wonderland - The Tea At 5 O'Clock
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
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Brillant
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 3.9 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
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Tenango Noctuno / Textiles Mexican Folk Art Embroidery
Dionisia Gomez Gomez
Sculpture - 95 x 92 x 4 cm Sculpture - 37.4 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
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Tout est possible, sortie d'enfer
Phybra
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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African Juju Society VIII
Angu Walters
Painting - 70 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
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L'Impératrice d'Iran & Maurice Béjar
Adel Younesi
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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Anatomy: Class XIII
Dominik Jasinski
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 1 inch
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Le Rhinocéros courant
Gilles Nicolas
Sculpture - 16 x 43 x 23 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 16.9 x 9.1 inch
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Rennende stier No. 3
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 57 x 59 x 20 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 23.2 x 7.9 inch
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Équilibre d'éléphants
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 53 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
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Ein Spaziergang im Winter / Une promenade en hiver
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
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Hommage à Matisse # 1
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
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Study of Tiger and Lioness
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12 x 0 inch
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Paysage de terrain avec cheval de trait
Numa DONZÉ
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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Find your inner monkey
Alberto Blanchart
Painting - 50 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
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Sous l'océan
Studio Abawé
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
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La révérence d'un Dieu (2/8)
Dominique Mückli
Sculpture - 146 x 100 x 45 cm Sculpture - 57.5 x 39.4 x 17.7 inch
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La révérence d'un Dieu
Dominique Mückli
Sculpture - 146 x 100 x 45 cm Sculpture - 57.5 x 39.4 x 17.7 inch
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Les petits poissons multicolores
Dany Soyer
Painting - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
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No Sense Kitty
Christophe Stouvenel
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 24 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.4 inch
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Elle était jolie comme une hyène sous MD lâchée dans un Supermarché
Quitter Odessa
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Rhino
Cendrique Nouchy-Desjeux
Sculpture - 36.5 x 37.5 x 23.5 cm Sculpture - 14.4 x 14.8 x 9.3 inch
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White
Anne Juliette Deschamps
Sculpture - 150 x 120 x 83 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 47.2 x 32.7 inch
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Ma terre...
Patricia Henricy Cruzalegui
Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
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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.