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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
Curious (Mousehole)
Inga Makarova
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Puma allongé EA IV/IV
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 80 x 75 x 75 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.5 x 29.5 inch
€28,000
Lioness and the Scorpion
Leticia de Prado
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€8,000
9 April Fishes - Meeting
Christian Jodin
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€395
Lithographie originale de Yves Brayer
Yves Brayer
Print - 54 x 57 x 0.3 cm Print - 21.3 x 22.4 x 0.1 inch
€250
Still Life with a Green Bug
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
€2,100
Still Life with Black Pearls
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
€2,100
Still Life with a Green Bug
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
€2,100
Blue Bumblebee
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 102 x 72 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.2 x 28.3 x 0.1 inch
€2,300
Cyanotypie Herbier sous marin N°1
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 100 x 148 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 58.3 x 0.6 inch
€1,280
118 Dragon of the past
Anita Agnieszka Edvinsson
Painting - 131 x 96 x 3 cm Painting - 51.6 x 37.8 x 1.2 inch
€23,500
Canned Koi Consumption/The Shopping Queen
Andrea Berthel
Print - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€690
Mr Chat Grand
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 50.5 x 39.5 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.9 x 15.6 x 2.4 inch
€3,200
Vermilingua kiss
Olga Oreshnikov
Painting - 90.2 x 90.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 35.5 x 35.5 x 1.5 inch
€4,380
Taylor Swift's Butterflies
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€150
Taylor Swift's Summer Butterflies (Papillons d'Eté)
Christian Jodin
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€250
Love is like a butterfly III
Ottelien Huckin
Painting - 23.5 x 17 x 1 cm Painting - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.4 inch
€489
Saint George’s Steer
Giorgi Kukhalashvili
Painting - 90 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
€6,700
Jeune Cerf au galop
Matthieu Floranc
Sculpture - 25 x 31 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 12.2 x 3.9 inch
€4,000
0483. From The ONE Series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 174 x 134.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 68.5 x 53.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,508
0529. From The ONE Series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 174 x 134.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 68.5 x 53.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,508
1909. From The ONE Series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 129.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 51.1 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
€3,102
0971. From The ONE Series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 129.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 51.1 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
€3,102
1858. From The ONE Series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 129.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 51.1 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
€3,102
1785. From The ONE Series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 129.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 51.1 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
€3,102
0946. From The ONE Series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 129.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 51.1 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
€3,102
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
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
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
L'étang ensoleillé
Diana Malivani
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€13,500
Blu aquatic dream
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€2,700
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.