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Piaf violet clair brillant, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€290
Piaf violet brillant, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€290
The thinking monkey 2
Laureline Françoise Nicolas Veelo
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,618
Cousin
Laureline Françoise Nicolas Veelo
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,618
Horse and the child
Stavri Kalinov
Painting - 113 x 68 x 2 cm Painting - 44.5 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
€9,800
Flamant rose
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 80 x 103.6 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 40.8 x 0.2 inch
€1,100
Manifestation: Blue Birds
Eury Kim
Painting - 53 x 40.8 x 2 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
€740
Chien aux Pierres Précieuses
Joanna Glazer
Sculpture - 25 x 45 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 17.7 x 7.9 inch
€490
Petit poisson plumé
Agathe David
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 33 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 13 x 0.1 inch
€460
Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Ilia Boyarov
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 35 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 inch
€140
UrbanCat Porcelain edition
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 21 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
€2,400
Modern Borrowed Scenery Daiso 2
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,700
Modern Borrowed Scenery DAISO
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,700
Ready to start again (1)
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 62 x 90 x 3.3 cm Painting - 24.4 x 35.4 x 1.3 inch
€620
In 2 Future
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Uncharted Drive
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Uncharted Heights
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
Uncharted Speed
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Profitable Freude
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
His Majesty the Puffin - Hvalnes, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 150 x 100 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 inch
€800
His Majesty the Stag - Wicklow Mountain, Ireland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 150 x 100 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 inch
€800
Island of 20,000 puffins - Lundey, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 100 x 150 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 inch
€800
The Cevennes gladiators, Cevennes
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€500
Déjeuner dans l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
€3,500
Princess from the Savannah
Wale Ajayi
Fine Art Drawings - 108 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 42.5 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€2,959
Wings of Happiness
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 127 x 177.8 x 0.25 cm Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 inch
€1,600
Moon Spirit
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 152.4 x 121.92 x 0.25 cm Photography - 60 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€1,450
An Autumn Tale
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 127 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 50 x 0.1 inch
€1,100
Time to Fly
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 127 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€1,150
Enjoy the sunshine
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€950
Precious Moment
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 101.6 x 81.28 x 0.25 cm Photography - 40 x 32 x 0.1 inch
€850
A Hard-Working Great Egret
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€700
Wings of the Sky
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 60.96 x 76.2 x 0.25 cm Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€600
This Land is Your Land
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 58.42 x 78.74 x 0.25 cm Photography - 23 x 31 x 0.1 inch
€600
Peace, Love, and Joy
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 60.96 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
€700
When the Moon Rises
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 60.96 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
€600
Moon song
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 152.4 x 121.92 x 0.25 cm Photography - 60 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€1,400
The cat with the pearl earring
Eva Goubin
Painting - 20.32 x 20.32 x 3 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 1.2 inch
€800 €640
Giving Up Is Not An Option 2
John Alogi
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 inch
€3,341
Dress Code
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,700
Staring Lions
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,700
Tallest in the Building
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Satirs and stripes
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 100 x 67 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Waltz of the whales
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 121 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 47.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,700
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.