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Over in the Meadow
Inga Makarova
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€4,350
L'armée des 12 chats
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 45 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€480
Curious (Mousehole)
Inga Makarova
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Le taureau solitaire
Hervé Le Bis
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€2,700
Savana
Catherine de Kerhor
Sculpture - 167 x 120 x 70 cm Sculpture - 65.7 x 47.2 x 27.6 inch
€61,400
Manifestation: Blue Ranchu
Eury Kim
Painting - 116.8 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 46 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
€3,350
Alice dans la maison du L. Blanc
Wabé
Sculpture - 130 x 54 x 27 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 21.3 x 10.6 inch
€4,800
Manifestation: Mandarins
Eury Kim
Painting - 80.3 x 80.3 x 3.3 cm Painting - 31.6 x 31.6 x 1.3 inch
€2,400
Sur les Chemins d'Alice - Le Cheval.
Brno Del Zou
Photography - 22 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 13 x 0 inch
€200
Taylor Swift's Butterflies (Les Papillons de Taylor Swift)
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€295
Les oiseaux de Kandinsky II
Laurent Perbos
Print - 66 x 50.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 26 x 19.9 x 0.1 inch
€250
Le bonheur et le laurier
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 46 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
€400
Blu aquatic dream
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€2,700
Dystopian Lullaby Cluster 3
Randi Matushevitz
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 inch
€3,097
Spiritual Realm
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 240 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 94.5 x 0 inch
€15,486
Near Far
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 210 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 82.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€7,743
Signature
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 210 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 82.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€7,743
Distance
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 144 x 144 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 56.7 x 56.7 x 0 inch
€11,614
Singe bleu au cigare
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 80 x 45 x 70 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 17.7 x 27.6 inch
€2,350
Rippers
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 inch
€300
Red bull
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 41 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.1 inch
€270
Ripper
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 11.8 inch
€270
Grâce africaine
Lee Berthille
Sculpture - 190.5 x 83.5 x 38 cm Sculpture - 75 x 32.9 x 15 inch
€5,500
Untitled 18 (NY)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 112 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€3,871
Untitled 14 (NY)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 112 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€3,871
White Noise
Chien Hua Huang
Photography - 75 x 75 x 4 cm Photography - 29.5 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
€3,360
Drôle d'oiseau
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 14 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.5 x 0 inch
€150
Portfolio 12th Anniversary of Galeria Joan Prats
Perejaume
Print - 36 x 56 cm Print - 14.2 x 22 inch
€450
URBANCAT MAGNIFICO : KITTY METROPOLIS MUSE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 150 x 90 x 60 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 35.4 x 23.6 inch
€30,000
Portée Disparue
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 162 x 114 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.6 inch
€6,000
Blossom and bird song
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€290
Across the univers
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
Sold
Panthère noire
Steve Chaudanson
Sculpture - 102.9 x 230 x 62.5 cm Sculpture - 40.5 x 90.6 x 24.6 inch
€50,000
Boarding Masks
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€8,400
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
€11,614
Ça me rend chevre
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Rabbits Get Fat in Autumn
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
€5,500
The Scenery of Coconut Grove
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
€5,500
Dreams of Birds and Flowers
Janet Gough
Painting - 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
€2,587
Dance of the Butterflies
Janet Gough
Painting - 69 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 27.2 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,895
Little Bird and Orange
Janet Gough
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€2,279
From Wastes of Scrub and Nothing Came
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2.4 inch
€2,217
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.