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The Godfather
Roy van der Laars
Sculpture - 112 x 120 x 30 cm Sculpture - 44.1 x 47.2 x 11.8 inch
$5,627
La temptació
Salvador de Batlle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,274
Fire and fury
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 120 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$4,547
Greeting the memory
Luis Alberto Quispe
Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 17 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.7 x 6.7 inch
$227
Lampadaire Harfang II
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 183 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 72 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
$13,641
Renard
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 25.5 x 31 x 36 cm Sculpture - 10 x 12.2 x 14.2 inch
$16,824
Taureau bronze
Jérôme Radigois
Sculpture - 35 x 80 x 27 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 31.5 x 10.6 inch
$15,915
Passereaux trépassés 1 : Mésange charbonnière
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$432
Tropiques, oiseaux blancs
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,160
Ben en train de terrasser l’art dit contemporain
Ben Vautier
Painting - 99 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$15,915
Cactus Forest
Nadia Attura
Photography - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,068
Animal à la chute
Marion Chombart de Lauwe
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,080
Coeur argenté
Béatrice Bost Le Moël
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,842
T-Rex Cyborg Dinosaur Figure Silver
Hajime Sorayama
Sculpture - 23 x 65 x 15 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 25.6 x 5.9 inch
$4,550
Three horses on the sea - Italian painting
Romano Mussolini
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
The seagulls festival
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,350
Ignacio Egido (Anyako) - Pardalet
Ignacio Egido (Inyako)
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Moonwalk on wheels 1
Guillaume Nicolaou
Sculpture - 150 x 70 x 5 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$3,638
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,478
Notte di Natale
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$17,052
Mes petits lapins !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$102
Jongetje met hond (Little boy with dog)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 20 x 8 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.1 x 4.3 inch
$995
Nous vivons sous le souffle de notre monde, le laissant porter nos âmes vagabondes
Caroline Huet
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$398
Majestic nishikigoi in metal splendor : aqueous grandeur azure
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 75 x 100 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.5 x 39.4 inch
$27,282
Urban friends on week end, Série Chat-mouflage
Nagsoul
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,080 $864
Ours Pompon
François Pompon et Yves Klein
Sculpture - 27 x 49 x 19 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 19.3 x 7.5 inch
$11,936
My friends in Hawaii (Tom is a hawaian dancer)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
L'épouvantail
Mara
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$398
No sé de dónde vienen los aullidos
Richard García
Painting - 47 x 38 x 1 cm Painting - 18.5 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$1,796
Untitled
Joan Albert
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 47 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$682
Bado Mecambo
François Vandenberghe
Sculpture - 60 x 37 x 52 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 14.6 x 20.5 inch
$26,714
Abeille I (4)
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$136
Dynaste Hercule
Edouard Martinet
Sculpture - 22 x 60 x 20 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 23.6 x 7.9 inch
$14,551
Tauromachie
Lydie Arickx
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$2,501
Come dare i primi soccorsi ann cane
Valerio Adami
Painting - 81 x 100 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 inch
$96,625
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.