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Tactile hallucination
Nina Narimanishvili
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,169
Thoroughbred Stables
Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$515
Wild lens - Horses III
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild lens - Horses II
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild lens - Horses I
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild lens - Elephant XIX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild lens - Elephant XVII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild lens - Elephant XI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild lens - Elephant X
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild lens - Big Five II
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 50 x 150 x 3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild lens - Penguins
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 50 x 150 x 3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
La lente agonie du lac Victoria
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 50 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,697
L'Année du Cochon Corse
Marie Burel
Photography - 44 x 34 x 3 cm Photography - 17.3 x 13.4 x 1.2 inch
$679
L'Année du Charmeur de Serpent
Marie Burel
Photography - 47.5 x 37.5 x 3 cm Photography - 18.7 x 14.8 x 1.2 inch
$792
Alpaufzug Partytime
Fredi Gertsch
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,597
Under the Water
Diana Malivani
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$15,277
Winking Blue Dog and Dancing Partner
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$554
Panthere Christian Lattier
Christian Lattier
Photography - 18 x 29 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.4 inch
$5,545
L'homme au ballon, la montre molle et l'oiseau sur le parapluie de la Dame en short
Max Parisot du Lyaumont
Print - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,263
1958 Le bison The buffalo
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 48 x 64 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.2 x 0.2 inch
$5,602
Rizière et Buffles 1952 Rice Fields and buffaloes
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$5,602
Poisson Magique
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 90 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$13,580
L'Idole
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$9,053
Le Voyage Fantastique I
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,487
Le Gardien
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 78 x 78 x 4 cm Painting - 30.7 x 30.7 x 1.6 inch
$9,053
Caperucita y guspirus
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 130 x 163 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 64.2 x 1.4 inch
$2,772
King Kong Balls Bleu
Denis Defrancesco
Sculpture - 11 x 25 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 9.8 x 4.3 inch
$1,697
Cat chin-holder (everybody needs one)
Jacques Tange
Painting - 28 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 11 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$883
Löwe abstrakt
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,545
Elegance of the Wild
Jennifer Makhatadze
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,829
Comment capturer une autruche
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$679
Attention ou vous campez
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$679
The call of the water 03 - Stokksnes, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$736
Cosmopolita V
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$9,166
La salle d'attente (The waiting room)
Muriel Bordier
Photography - 100 x 172 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 67.7 x 1.6 inch
$6,224
La grenouille
Serge Van de Put
Sculpture - 40 x 45 x 40 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 17.7 x 15.7 inch
$3,961
Wetlands' Morning
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 48.26 x 73.66 x 0.25 cm Photography - 19 x 29 x 0.1 inch
$622
Sunshine
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 63.5 x 50.8 x 0.25 cm Photography - 25 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$622
Season of Hope
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 63.5 x 50.8 x 0.25 cm Photography - 25 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$622
Cirque du jus de betterave
Edward Zelinsky
Painting - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.8 cm Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.3 inch
$325
Dorrie and her Dog
Brian King
Painting - 57.9 x 41.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 22.8 x 16.5 x 1 inch
$3,772
Miss black knight
Artemisia Fine Art
Painting - 79.8 x 79.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 31.4 x 2 inch
$4,100
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.