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Les cabines de la plages
Françoise Leblond
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,456
Les intrépides
Françoise Leblond
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$5,059
Roi lion (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 36 x 64 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 25.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,046
Rafiki (plan du métro de Paris)
Fat
Painting - 41 x 68 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 26.8 x 0.1 inch
$2,274
Panthère de l'Amour 01
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,125
Les yeux verts
Christiane Bernais
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.7 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$1,023
Sunny Landscape
Michalina Czurakowska
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$15,290
1985 Oiseau Bird Saint John Perse
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 28 x 38 x 0.5 cm Print - 11 x 15 x 0.2 inch
$1,080
Passereaux trépassés 9 : Fauvette à tête noire 4
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Passereaux trépassés 8 : Merlette
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Passereaux trépassés 7 : Rouge gorge
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Passereaux trépassés 6 : Fauvette à tête noire 3
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Passereaux trépassés 5 : Martinet noir
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Passereaux trépassés 4 : Fauvette à tête noire 2
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Passereaux trépassés 3 : Fauvette à tête noire
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Passereaux trépassés 2 : Sittelle
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Chien Ballon apesanteur en nickel rouge 38
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 38 x 23 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
$659
Chien Ballon apesanteur en nickel bleue 38
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 38 x 23 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
$659
Guitariste Arlequin Grand Bois
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 53 x 31 x 25 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 12.2 x 9.8 inch
$5,661
Tête de lion III
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 63 x 42 x 45 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 16.5 x 17.7 inch
$22,735
Panda (Série Passages)
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 38 x 52 x 8 cm Sculpture - 15 x 20.5 x 3.1 inch
$1,705
Cloned Bloodhound with Backpack
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 57 x 30 x 37 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 11.8 x 14.6 inch
$2,501
Me dijeron que saliera de la zona de confort
Richard García
Painting - 140 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$8,117
Tienes muchos pájaros en la cabeza
Richard García
Painting - 150 x 135 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 53.1 x 2 inch
$9,412
Metaphysical landscape with Cecile and Calypso observing the sunset of capitalism
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 45.7 x 71.1 x 0.6 cm Painting - 18 x 28 x 0.25 inch
$800
Dos rond EA II/IV
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 41 x 37 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 14.6 x 7.9 inch
$17,052
Cheval cabre en tole
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 230 x 55 x 200 cm Sculpture - 90.6 x 21.7 x 78.7 inch
$2,615
A girl who loves the sea
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
September 13, cows at the Mont Gerbier de Jonc
Anne Baudequin
Painting - 61 x 91.9 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,900
Grace and power under pressure (Green)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 46 x 61 cm Print - 18.1 x 24 inch
$625
Marmot Gold Porcelain Edition
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 27 x 30 x 17 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 11.8 x 6.7 inch
$682
Scottish Blackface Ram (Ovis Aries)
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 60 x 62 x 42 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 24.4 x 16.5 inch
$7,048
Large scale - Ocean
Eliana Sá
Painting - 105.5 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 41.5 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,217
The wings of summer
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,023
Portrait with koi fishes
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$850
Coral Sea reeffish patterns
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$850
Coral Sea Conservation Underwater
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 38 x 0.1 inch
$980
Riding the Wind
Anthony Horth
Photography - 50.8 x 71.1 x 1 cm Photography - 20 x 28 x 0.4 inch
$750
Panthère pattes croisées
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 56 x 70 x 45 cm Sculpture - 22 x 27.6 x 17.7 inch
$28,419
Centauros III
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
$5,500
Les toutous de la rue Taylor
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$341
Végas pop art Miami
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 45 x 30 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$1,341
Leopard II maquette
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 28 x 60 x 30 cm Sculpture - 11 x 23.6 x 11.8 inch
$13,641
Le mystérieux feu du renard roux
Catherine Clare
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$739
Paranthropus Robustus
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 45 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
$4,996
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.