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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
$580
Le propanolol monégasque
Yohan Storti
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,456
Love monkey Orange (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Love rat (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$55
Monkey love (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$55
Thoroughbred Stables
Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$508
Pluie d'Os
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,019
Bedouin Camel
Anthony Horth
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.2 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$1,100
L'entorse
Claude André Thibaud
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 22 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 8.7 x 0 inch
$573
Aurum Hortensis
Angela Morris-Winmill
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,635
Abstract Danish dog
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 40 x 130 x 115 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 51.2 x 45.3 inch
$7,758
Coral Sea Conservation Diving Adventures
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 94 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 37 x 0.1 inch
$980
Kalaallit Nunaat 01-01
Antoine Buttafoghi
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$1,340
Liberté surveillée
Cécile Coutant
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,425
Red-footed Falcon
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 24.2 x 32.3 x 2 cm Painting - 9.5 x 12.7 x 0.8 inch
$960 $864
Study of lion and lioness
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 23.8 x 31 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12.2 x 0 inch
$614
Tiger at Rest
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 30.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 11.9 x 0 inch
$670
Lux Don't Look Back
Jens-Christian Wittig
Print - 101.6 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Print - 40 x 60 x 1 inch
$8,690
Équilibre d'éléphants
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 53 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$4,800
Foreground of a Lion
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 40.8 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
$558
Rhododendron, SSM
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 22.7 x 22.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.9 x 8.9 x 0 inch
$781 $664
Jean, portrait de Doudou
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 25.6 inch
$279
Crabe rose / Pink crab
Boris Tabacoff
Sculpture - 10 x 15 x 5 cm Sculpture - 3.9 x 5.9 x 2 inch
$1,395
La visite des lapins
Barbara Petit Lisy
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,192
Dame Carcasse - série femme de Carcassonne
Michel Philippon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$837
Oiseau Libre
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 29 x 17 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 6.7 x 6.7 inch
$3,126
I'm Sorry But I Can't Promise It Wont Happen Again
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 56 x 0.01 cm Print - 29.5 x 22 x 0 inch
$6,477
Lion skull
Michael Burgess
Fine Art Drawings - 71 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$1,340
Cow (Pink & Yellow) Triptych, 1966 (after Andy Warhol)
Andy Warhol
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
$614
Nu abstrait N°23 - Monstera palace Pièce N°6
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 45.5 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.9 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$871
Sapeur Cerf
Boureima Ouedraogo
Sculpture - 35 x 36.5 x 16 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 14.4 x 6.3 inch
$949
Cuentos del norte
Miquel Wert
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$949
Cloned Dachshund with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 39 x 65 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 25.6 x 7.9 inch
$7,814
Assiette de poissons
Edouard Arthur
Painting - 33.5 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13.2 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$869
Le Félin
Patricia Guinois Messica
Sculpture - 27 x 60 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 23.6 x 5.5 inch
$7,256
Dardos yellow
Javier de la Rosa
Sculpture - 20 x 120 x 30 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 47.2 x 11.8 inch
$2,617
The edge of civilization
Ventzislav Dikov
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,119
Chat à la fênetre
Enric Cormenzana
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,674
Stepping into the unknown
Martin Wojnowski
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$614
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.