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Nocturnal brilliance IV
Sreya Gupta
Painting - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$692
Début du monde : la mer - série Paysage et histoire du monde
Michel Philippon
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,674
Chasser les mouettes
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 32 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Wild Kong Yellow
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 3.5 inch
$4,912
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
$670
We're to Protect the Village, and it was the Only
Amy Bernays
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,300
Cheval de Przewalski 01
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 74 x 120 cm Photography - 29.1 x 47.2 inch
$1,060
Healing Greenland, Chunja & the dog
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,116
Healing Greenland, Chunja & The Tiger
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,116 $949
Healing Greenland, Chunja and The Monkey Brothers
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,116
Stand appart from the crowd
Nite Owl
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,005
Horse Face
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14 x 0.04 inch
$1,800 $1,530
L'homme au faucon, série Art animalier
Jean-Louis Manuel
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,009
Back From Beijing. / Shoot The Bank X Pow Street Art!
JP Malot
Painting - 40 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,340
Gribouillours - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$681
L’ébouriffé ours - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$681
Dans la gueule de l'ours - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$681
Chien de Montagne rose fluorescent
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 42 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$558
Reagan and the queen
Ian Bradshaw
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,451
Stories Scheherazade Certified II
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$212
Vert Meta Graphic 002
Jean-Claude Byandb
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$681
Pigeon monument
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$614
Laure retour de match
Bertrand De Cointet
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$804
Poisson voyageur
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,116
Galichromie
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 120 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,233
Reciprocity 7
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,674 $1,423
Reciprocity 8
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,060 $954
Mouton migrateur
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$2,233
Contemporary portrait "Near the mineral spring"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.9 inch
$2,791
Christmas Tree at the City Hall Square
Elena Lukina
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Gabarit cheval au trot en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 200 x 60 x 280 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 23.6 x 110.2 inch
$2,400
Gabarit Cheval au trot en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 200 x 60 x 280 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 23.6 x 110.2 inch
$2,400
Cabbage that sheltered the golden lion
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,009
Sheep With Flower
Maia Kvatchadze
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,233
Butterfly "Eclosion" N°1259
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$893
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$592
Small talks II
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$592
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.