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Les arbres girafes
Angelo Pioppo
Painting - 27 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$770 $385
Iroise - série mer et poissons
Sylvie Vandensteendam
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,415
Hey Josephine, Wazzup?
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,052
Dragonfly in my garden
Quynh Elisa Hoang
Painting - 100.1 x 71.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,800
Myth, muse and metaphor #5
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,300
Goldfish XXXVI
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,262
Hummingbirds at sunset
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 100.1 x 59.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,165
I'm not in a good mood
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 0.2 inch
$920
Turn exercises
Geert Lemmers
Photography - 81.3 x 99.1 x 2.5 cm Photography - 32 x 39 x 1 inch
$1,221
Can this be comedy cried the clown?
Jean Guy Morin
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 2 inch
$1,717
South of Taos, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.2 inch
$2,070
Elephant #24 - "One of the big five"
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 0.7 inch
$1,350
Gorilla - hominedea, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 78.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39 x 31 x 0.7 inch
$1,490
Panthère sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 158 x 105 x 68 cm Sculpture - 62.2 x 41.3 x 26.8 inch
$73,556
Life is a bubble
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 24 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$225
The Bear Wants you to Stop Fighting
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$679
Dreams in black and white
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 31 x 23 x 1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
$453
Aigle ou Charognard?
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,790
Tête de panthère fontaine, maquette
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 30 x 18 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.1 x 7.9 inch
$9,053
Trois guépards en course
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 21 x 43 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 16.9 x 3.9 inch
$9,053
Elephant bathing in dust pixels
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$905
Le coq - bronze
Mireille Bassier-Tilmont
Sculpture - 25 x 14 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 5.5 x 2 inch
$249
Parachuting rat - Tribute to Banksy
Lasveguix
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,301
The hippo perch / L’hippo perchoir
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 12.5 x 32.5 x 9 cm Sculpture - 4.9 x 12.8 x 3.5 inch
$2,207
Vol de nuit
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 57 x 60 x 71 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 23.6 x 28 inch
$31,686
Dans la grotte
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,358
Colchicum bivonae with praying mantis (Iris oratoria)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 28 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$588
Sans titre
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
$679
Perro besa a su dueña
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 72 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Wild Lens - Tiger
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild Lens - Toro
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild Lens - KANGAROO
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild Lens - ELK
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild Lens - Dromadary
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild Lens - Horse XXIV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild Lens - Horse XXII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild Lens - Horse XIX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild lens - Horse XVII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild Lens - Horses XVI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild Lens - Horses XV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,139
Wild Lens - Horses XIV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild Lens - Horses IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild Lens - Horses X
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild Lens - Horses IX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
Wild Lens - Horses VII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,252
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.