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Detected Dictionnary (Wolfsschädel)
Stefan à Wengen
Painting - 30 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,410
It will never be the last time
Gabriela Culic
Painting - 120 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,410
Nevermore 3
Luis Enrique Toledo
Painting - 116.8 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 46 x 36 x 1 inch
$17,000
Cheval en galop gaalctique
Ari Setiawan
Sculpture - 134 x 130 x 30 cm Sculpture - 52.8 x 51.2 x 11.8 inch
$22,735
Le papillon aquatique
Elzbieta Radziwill
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$5,115
Sleeping Cat
Giselle Halff
Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 31 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.6 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
$284
Milarius Dogonarus
Michel Flamme
Sculpture - 48 x 26 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 10.2 x 11.8 inch
$2,615
Chihuahua Montecarmelo
Elvira Carrasco
Sculpture - 24 x 11.5 x 14.5 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 4.5 x 5.7 inch
$2,496
Renart
Alexandre et Florentine Lamarche-Ovize
Sculpture - 60 x 70 x 40 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 27.6 x 15.7 inch
$4,206
Birds in Morocco
Helen Vogt
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 14 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.5 x 0 inch
$432
Porte-briquet Tête de Lion en Cristal
René Lalique
Design - 9 x 10 x 10 cm Design - 3.5 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$512
Flying Dumbo red 1/8
SA Candela
Sculpture - 100 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$6,821 $6,139
Ricky and Amelia
Robin Schwartz
Photography - 152 x 102 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.8 x 40.2 x 0 inch
$7,389
Eléphant Hermès
Dominique Kleiner
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$682
Forest Fight
Tom Liekens
Fine Art Drawings - 170 x 250 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 66.9 x 98.4 x 1.2 inch
$19,325
Petit cheval au trot
Alessandro Montalbano
Sculpture - 21 x 19.5 x 7.5 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 7.7 x 3 inch
$3,842
The Love of Pain (Pink and Silver)
Dan Baldwin
Sculpture - 25 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.1 inch
$4,300
His Language Code: NA#03
Nour Alkawa
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$7,982
Ant Ceramic Sculpture - Pink
Mambo Unlimited
Design - 10 x 30 x 19 cm Design - 3.9 x 11.8 x 7.5 inch
$375
L’Ours Pompon édition Yves Klein - Épreuve d'Artiste + édition papier offerte
Yves Klein
Sculpture - 27 x 49 x 19 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 19.3 x 7.5 inch
$14,210
The Power of breaking fear
Suraj Kumar Kashi
Painting - 106.68 x 137.16 x 3 cm Painting - 42 x 54 x 1.2 inch
$4,945
Tinta
Patopalomo
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 33 x 0.34 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$523
The course of a horse plate 14
Steve Lewis
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$512
Everything You Need is Already Within
Bar Ben Vakil
Print - 76 x 59 x 1 cm Print - 29.9 x 23.2 x 0.4 inch
$4,000
Poisson archer
Sid Bruce Short Joe
Sculpture - 58 x 108 x 29 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 42.5 x 11.4 inch
$7,275
Le circuit froid et l’escargot petit-gris
Gérard Fromanger
Fine Art Drawings - 71 x 102 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 40.2 x 1.2 inch
$28,419
Eléphantasme organique
Anis Dargaa
Sculpture - 36 x 29 x 12 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 11.4 x 4.7 inch
$20,462
Il ballo della vita
Ursula Tlusty
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,115
Promenons-nous dans les bois
Camille Piaton
Design - 130 x 90 x 75 cm Design - 51.2 x 35.4 x 29.5 inch
$4,490
Bord de la rivière avec oies
Maximilien Luce
Painting - 24 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$9,890
Farmers in Maremma - Tuscany painting
Giacomo Vaccaro
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$313
Le coq 5
Changzheng Zhu
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 38 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$103
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.