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Coi, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 79.8 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€2,582
Koi, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 69.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€2,195
Bombay by night
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€299
Direction La Mecque
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299
Sacrifices made to the nymphs
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€6,458
Estive kirghize
Valentin Pacaut
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€700
Portrait de Roi
Valentin Pacaut
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€700
L'Impresario et la Souris
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299
ButifI Were Someone Else, Who Then Would Be Me?
Anna Bukhareva
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 1.2 inch
€3,900
Drops of Diamonds
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€6,000
Golden Ratio
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
La Chasse aux Pigeons
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€299
La centrale Electrique
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€299
Le dernier elephant I
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€299
American Dream
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299
A Contre-courant
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€299
Arrivée de l'American Circus
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€1,200
Balade sentimentale
Christian Raffin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,200
See the Emotion
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 95 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Bride 2., Painting, Oil on Canvas
Igor Shulman
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€4,391
Bug in the system
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Print - 64 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 25.2 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
€3,500
Dreaming in Sanskrit
Susan Rocklin
Painting - 160 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
€8,362
A Cat on a Warm TV
Alexander (Sandro) Antadze
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,400
Le fantastique
Lee Berthille
Sculpture - 83 x 116 x 27 cm Sculpture - 32.7 x 45.7 x 10.6 inch
€3,500
Paris tonkar
Hasb
Fine Art Drawings - 29.8 x 41.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€480
Singapore, the year of the horse
Bruno Paget
Photography - 80 x 120 x 2.7 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.1 inch
€4,000
Plumes de feu série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€450
Tropiques-perroquet
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
L'éternelle attente
Pierre Sgamma
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
€2,800
Le Carrousel
Jean-Jacques Kugel
Sculpture - 80 x 40 x 16 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 15.7 x 6.3 inch
€4,800
Through the time
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 200 x 150 x 0.4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.2 inch
€4,115
Work isn’t going anywhere
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 110 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€3,498
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (3)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
€2,840
Treacherous
Shota Imerlishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 86 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 33.9 x 0 inch
€3,000
Passion's anatomy
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 200 x 160 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 0.1 inch
€4,620
Cyclops (The Simpsons) 400% + 100%
Bearbrick
Design - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Design - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
€400
Van Gogh Museum Self Portrait 400% + 100%
Bearbrick
Design - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Design - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
€400
Hunting for Prey
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
€4,300
The Pink Dress
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
€3,750
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.