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Interstice of Worlds
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$739
Sleeping beauty awakes
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 61 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,603
Portrait of leopard
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 92 x 71 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,864
Lord of the jungle
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 76 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,944
Gutta -Percha Hunter (diptych)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,320
Imagined destinations, Palimpsest ( Palimpseste )
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,705
Awkward situation
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 110 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$7,082
Walking in the bush
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 70 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,785
Le Chat Noir avec le Collier Poofy
Brian Nash
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,400
Avec le chat - Scène de vie art brut
Luco
Painting - 65 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$568
Où il y a de la vie, il y a de l'espoir... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,364
L'échappée belle...
Olivier Messas
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
L'Ours dansant
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 50 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$3,638
Le chant des oiseaux... (Origami 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,080
Neha et les autruches - Pakistan (2)
Sarah Caron
Photography - 54 x 79 x 0.1 cm Photography - 21.3 x 31.1 x 0 inch
$2,274
L'armoire mange le bourdon
RG RG
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
Squirrel in the Field of Flowers
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 22.7 x 22.7 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.9 x 8.9 x 1.2 inch
$682
Rabbits, Light in the Forest
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 27.3 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 10.7 x 1.2 inch
$682
Blue, pink, green, orange happy Horses Rose, Orange, Bleu, Vert 2006 Quatre Chevaux Joyeux
Frédéric Menguy
Print - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Print - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,125
The Green Horse 2002 Le Cheval Vert
Frédéric Menguy
Print - 19 x 19 cm Print - 7.5 x 7.5 inch
$1,125
Happy Pink Horse 2001 Le cheval rose joyeux
Frédéric Menguy
Print - 20 x 20 cm Print - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$1,125
Untitled
Francesc Genovés
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$631
Untitled
Francesc Genovés
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$631
Vaches dans le champ
Armand Cacheux
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,083
La capture - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$818
Oiseau d'or - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 30 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$654
Le chasseur - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$818
Dada - The test of the soul
Fan Hong
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$6,821
Cosa fa un elefante qua
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 28 x 12 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11 x 4.7 x 0.1 inch
$159
Le Lac des Cygnes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$341
Palabre de Cygnes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$341
Géographie improbable (jaune)
Chesca
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,046
Séduisante
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$455 $409
La magie des lucioles
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$341
Plume du Poëte
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$341
Les piplettes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$341
Sentinelle de Loire
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$455
Three's Company. From the origin series
Casey Waterman
Painting - 41.9 x 125.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 49.5 x 2 inch
$4,000
Hérons, hérons petits, pas tapons
Peggy Cardoso
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,307
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.