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Chien entre deux chaises
Léa Dedieu
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
The Kingfisher
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$7,238
Moon's Best Friend
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 110 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
$5,881
Self Portrait
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 110 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
$6,446
Amanti che si accompagnano con la musica
Tonino Guerra
Print - 38 x 18 x 0.1 cm Print - 15 x 7.1 x 0 inch
$221
Butterfly – Dreaming of Hope
Chang Im Choi
Painting - 116.8 x 91 x 2.8 cm Painting - 46 x 35.8 x 1.1 inch
$7,690
1 frozen sea bass.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 100.8 x 219.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39.7 x 86.5 x 2 inch
$12,000
Ça me rend chevre
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Mallows in the mother's garden
Andrey Chebotaru
Painting - 139.7 x 149.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 55 x 59 x 1 inch
$13,100
Liberté… (Origami)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Little fantasy world # 5
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 32.5 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$317 $253
Little fantasy world # 1
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 32.5 x 25 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$317 $253
The Elegance of Kungfucat : Black Cat Fu Symphony
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 60 x 50 x 60 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 19.7 x 23.6 inch
$16,963
The Enigmatic Journey of Ninjacat : White Stealthy Whiskers
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 60 x 80 x 50 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 31.5 x 19.7 inch
$16,963
Shoguncat's Noble Stance : Red Regal Vigor
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 60 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$16,963
WARRIORCAT QUADRIVIUM PPSB : A CHROMIUM TALE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 31 x 138 x 20 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 54.3 x 7.9 inch
$23,749
Trilogy Robotcat Pink, Warriorcat Orange, Urbancat Yellow : Triad of Whiskers
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 28 x 73 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11 x 28.7 x 7.9 inch
$19,225
TRILOGY ROBOTCAT ORANGE, SUMOCAT BLU, URBANCAT YELLOW : FELINE METROPOLIS
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 28 x 73 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11 x 28.7 x 7.9 inch
$19,225
TRILOGY URBANCAT, SUMOCAT, ROBOTCAT BLU : AZURE CHRONICLES
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 28 x 73 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11 x 28.7 x 7.9 inch
$19,225
Theo mackaay - Golden camal
Theo Mackaay
Sculpture - 70 x 25 x 110 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 9.8 x 43.3 inch
$5,089
Taylor Swift's Butterflies
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$170
Taylor Swift's Summer Butterflies (Papillons d'Eté)
Christian Jodin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$283
Le Dompteur
Korsé
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$622
Conceptual Memories
Debbie Barr
Painting - 60.96 x 60.96 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$3,762
Goya's Dog Scratiching Itself
Pepe Hidalgo
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$9,081
Je partirai avec la marée
Jean-Pierre Douchez
Painting - 27 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$338
Lei sta ferma con il gatto e gli oggetti volano
Tonino Guerra
Print - 22 x 22 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.7 x 8.7 x 0 inch
$271
El Abrazo II
Pere Bennàssar Obrador
Sculpture - 71 x 34 x 27 cm Sculpture - 28 x 13.4 x 10.6 inch
$6,090
Ours rouge et jaune - Smile Pop Art Co. N°4
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 inch
$1,334
THE UNITED PANDASAN : SPECTRAL SYMMETRY BLACK & BLU
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 55 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
$13,571
THE UNITED PANDASAN : SPECTRAL SYMMETRY SILVER & WHITE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 55 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
$13,571
THE UNITED PANDASAN : SPECTRAL SYMMETRY BLU & SILVER
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 55 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
$13,571
Le retour des oiseaux préhistoriques
Philippe Jacq
Painting - 50 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$3,280
The name
Long-Deng Xiong
Fine Art Drawings - 88.5 x 95.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 34.8 x 37.6 x 0 inch
$11,648
Sortie en Mer
Maïté Martinez
Sculpture - 18.5 x 32 x 35 cm Sculpture - 7.3 x 12.6 x 13.8 inch
$6,898
1958 Course de chevaux Horse Race
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 48 x 64 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.2 x 0.2 inch
$6,729
La dame à l'hermine, d'après Léonard de Vinci
André Guillarmain
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,410
Rest of the Plastic Swans
Eleonora Drumeva
Painting - 60 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,986
The First Night of the Red Dress
Eleonora Drumeva
Painting - 140 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,524
Pow wow. Indiens. Amerique du nord.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Goodmorning
Custom de Biest
Photography - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,336
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.