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Cast on the dog by Jeff
Giuseppe Fortunato
Sculpture - 25 x 23 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
$1,131
Sand clock CXXXIII (Sand clock serie)
Daniel Cuadrado
Painting - 15.6 x 6.6 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.1 x 2.6 x 0 inch
$1,278
Tête à tête - œuvre unique/originale en arche
La Robotte
Fine Art Drawings - 200 x 140 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 78.7 x 55.1 x 1.6 inch
$13,571
Le Coq dans tous ses états. sm 714
Jean-Paul Boyer
Sculpture - 55 x 58 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 22.8 x 3.9 inch
$1,470
From the Series Tout-en-Karton II – Part 2
Khaled Hafez
Painting - 40 x 40 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$1,200
Est-ce de l'art ou du cochon ?
Rolf Saint-Agnès
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$3,958
LE BEAU VOYAGE DES CARPES KOÏ
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,798
Journal d'un confiné 9
André Cervera
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$317
Oiseau Lyre 1959 Lyrebird
Wysszbar
Painting - 31.5 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12.4 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,012
Éléphant et son ballon rouge
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 56 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 22 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
$9,613
Journal d'un confiné - 24
André Cervera
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$317
Le poulailler du soleil levant
Valérie Abadie
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0 inch
$1,470
L’araignée blanche
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$339
Gitans en tenues de festivité
Josep Serra I Santa Serranta
Painting - 65 x 81 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,059
Tribunal des poissons
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$594
Storyteller
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 45.7 x 34.5 x 0.5 cm Photography - 18 x 13.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,600
Golden dragon on white - 3D plaster, gold leafing, minimalistic
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,089 $4,580
Les chemins de la tendresse
Timothy Archer
Painting - 120 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$4,863
White dragon 3d
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,524 $4,071
White dragon 3d - textured plaster, objects
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,524 $4,071
Do Bunnies Dream of Electric Bird?
Mariko Ando
Print - 15.2 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm Print - 6 x 4 x 2 inch
$775
I Collect Flowers in your Memory
Mariko Ando
Print - 15.2 x 10.2 x 5.1 cm Print - 6 x 4 x 2 inch
$800
Interstice of Worlds
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$735
3D silver butterflies
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,654 $5,089
3D silver mirror butterfly
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$5,654 $4,524
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.