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.

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And Then x 6 (Blue: The Superflat Method)

Virage

Tableau de Toucan

Léopard à la fontaine. Kenya

Tigre du Bengale. Inde occidentale

L'heure de la sieste. Ourson Brun. Canada.

Les trois grâce. Parc du Serengeti. Tanzanie.

Troupeau de Buffles Agra. Inde

Famille de Lion en repos. Tanzanie

Tigre du Bengale. Inde.

Tigre du Bengale. Inde

Repos du guerrier et sa famille. Lionne et lionceaux. Afrique du Sud

Girafe dans le parc national du Serengeti en Tanzanie.

Cheval Barbe 34-23

Colores de Colombia

Pesce

La poule

Collioure

Lion d'or

Dragon Boat

Spell III

Double Decoy II

Double Decoy

Apis mellifera (abeille)

Brachyura (crabe)

Tigre

Felix Chat Bleu

Standing Bear Tag (Ours Debut) | Unique

Panther Rouge Yeux Alu

Magic shadows

Blue & Green Sheep

Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel

Sheep's Head

Croc digue

L’hippodrome

Psst! I am Coming!

Jungle Paradise

A Little Floral Garden

Too much cat

Stingray

Fujiya Hotel 2

Fujiya Hotel 1

The Lion Returns

Modern Borrowed Scenery Iceberg House

Kong penseur

El pastor ceno pescao

Caballo de San Bartolome

Panthère bronze dentelle ajourée

Meilleur ami de l'homme

Australie

Salamandre

The Iron Horse - Le cheval de Fer

Blue Bird

Oiseau sur fond bleu

Oiseau sur fond vert

Lion spirit argent

Roaring Lion Edition

Panda Spirit Orange Edition

Raw Complete Collection

Sheep

Head

Boxing Kong

L'échappée belle...

Infiltrations

Rainbow Cloud

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