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Gaulle : la danse des menhirs - série Bande dessinée
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,364
La mouette - série bord de mer
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$591
Tête de panthère monumentale
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 205 x 200 x 180 cm Sculpture - 80.7 x 78.7 x 70.9 inch
$204,618
Mickey's Pop Art Symphony with Kidrobot
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 60 x 40 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$1,669
La romancière et ses chats
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$432
Ultimate freedom
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,842
Plexi'Art "Panther #1" (11)
JM Collell
Photography - 100 x 75 x 1.9 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.7 inch
$1,250
Le chat et sa maitresse
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$318
Rare Bored Ape Bowie
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,125
Walking with dog
Mihran Manukyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$980 $833
Loup Hurlant résine métal Grey Mat 2022
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 40 x 30 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.8 x 4.7 inch
$7,844
Nature morte aux iris et aux tulipes, détail
Iconographia
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$341
Les poissons de couleur
Dany Soyer
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,239 $1,115
Panther black mate
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 16 x 30 x 7 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 11.8 x 2.8 inch
$4,200
Wild kong black mate
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 4.3 inch
$4,500
Trompette de Virginie
Ludivine Corominas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,933
Oiseau totem d'abondance
Timothy Archer
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$8,185
En souvenir de mon enfance, Calvin & Hobbes
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 inch
$114
Cock-a-doodle-do
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
$341
Fuck, Fuck & Refuck
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 25.6 inch
$341
Faune et flore à Solentiname (1)
Luis Alvarado
Painting - 75 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,410
Arabian horse
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Dreaming rabbit-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 35.5 x 35 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14 x 13.8 x 8.7 inch
$671
Lion skull
Michael Burgess
Fine Art Drawings - 71 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$1,364
Follow your dreams
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 24 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$226
The Weight of Primal Impulse
Brad Sane
Painting - 101 x 76 x 5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 29.9 x 2 inch
$3,285
Love rat with bubble II
Utopia
Painting - 99 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 39 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,046 $1,637
Orange Funny Dragon I
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 22.5 x 17 x 13 cm Sculpture - 8.9 x 6.7 x 5.1 inch
$585 $527
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.