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Géographie improbable (jaune)
Chesca
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,034
Je suis la meilleure
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$449
Euh, comment je peux dire ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$449
Hérons, hérons petits, pas tapons
Peggy Cardoso
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,292
La mouche bleue (The Blue Fly)
Matthew Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$843
Méduses des mers d'aciers
Looki
Sculpture - 68 x 70 x 21 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 27.6 x 8.3 inch
$1,629
Que reste-t-il ? I/IV
Sophie Larroche
Sculpture - 26 x 15 x 12 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 5.9 x 4.7 inch
$2,922
Kong baril tag
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 45 x 25 x 16 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 9.8 x 6.3 inch
$14,495
Hot to trot
Gabrielle Pool
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$589
T-Rex Tagué 110
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 80 x 60 x 110 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 23.6 x 43.3 inch
$52,700
Stilt Walkers
Gabrielle Pool
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$589
Etude de "La bataille de Näfels"
Henri Fehr
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 44 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 17.3 x 0.1 inch
$631
Chromatic Water Lilies
Sofia Beltadze
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,686
A cheerful still life.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 69.6 x 49.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 27.4 x 19.6 x 2 inch
$1,950
A Parrot's Sour Treat: Lemons and Limes
Grace Diehl
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 1 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.4 inch
$1,026
Skybound: A Garden Avian
Grace Diehl
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
$1,026
Chirping Connections
Grace Diehl
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$1,845
An Ancient Egyptian Mystery
Grace Diehl
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,845
Flamingo
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 69.9 x 79.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 31.4 x 1 inch
$1,605
Seagulls
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 59.9 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$1,505
Phantasmagory
Mariam Odishvili
Painting - 23.5 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.3 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,124
Crocodile Facette Tag
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 70 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 27.6 inch
$25,732
White Horse: Illumination
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 71.1 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Myth, muse and metaphor #5
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,300
Applause Please
Tamta Chachanidze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,124
Let's go faster
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 40.9 x 58.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.2 x 1 inch
$2,000
Myth, Muse and Metaphor #7
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,600
Swan_01
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,390
Abstract Panther Gold
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 140 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 55.1 inch
$5,562
Wild Kong crackled pink
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 3.5 inch
$6,180
WILD KONG Crystal clear full fractal
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$44,835
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.