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Les girafes pianistes en bord de mer / Giraffes playing piano on the seaside
Peter Stilton
Painting - 40 x 51 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 20.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,177
Le Lac des Cygnes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$335
Éléphant et son ballon rouge
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 56 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 22 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
$9,488
Disparition du lion
Sophie Larroche
Sculpture - 44 x 27 x 13 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 10.6 x 5.1 inch
$4,353
La magie des lucioles
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$335
Plume du Poëte
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$335
Sentinelle de Loire
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$447
Miss Bling-bling
Thierry Benenati
Sculpture - 190 x 135 x 60 cm Sculpture - 74.8 x 53.1 x 23.6 inch
$128,371
Herrings on Ice
Tommi Anttonen
Photography - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,233
L'esprit de la paix
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$893
Une marche en Adélie
Gaelle Beyaert
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,076
Mêlée de Kokpar, Astana, Kazakhstan
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,674
Vol d’aigrettes sur le Victoria
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,674
The dog by the garage
Magnus Wahman
Photography - 40 x 73 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,340
In the realm of the peacock
Samvel Atasunts
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$850
Plus on est de fous, plus on rit...
François Nasica
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,340
Hare constellation
Iwona Sacharczuk Ivet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,898
Angel and devil
Iwona Sacharczuk Ivet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Flight over the sea
Lukasz Zalucki
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,250
Tiffany Dimond Dust with Gold Leaf Horn on White
Angela Morris-Winmill
Print - 88.9 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Print - 35 x 35 x 1 inch
$1,171
Bitte ohne Axt
Salvatore La Cola
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,888
0087, From The series One
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 134.9 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 53.1 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$3,700
Dessin / Sans titre
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Fine Art Drawings - 69 x 79 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.2 x 31.1 inch
$893
Dessin / Sans titre
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 31.5 inch
$1,116
Crowned Taurus
Sariah Anne Manning
Painting - 47 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 18.5 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,596
Froggy on A branch
Sariah Anne Manning
Painting - 35 x 28 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$1,258
Study Of A Bird
Sariah Anne Manning
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,833
Study of a Peacock
Sariah Anne Manning
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,833
Dissimulation VI
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,572
Le messager
Agathe David
Fine Art Drawings - 52 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.5 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$670
Sand clock CXXXIII (Sand clock serie)
Daniel Cuadrado
Painting - 15.6 x 6.6 x 0.1 cm Painting - 6.1 x 2.6 x 0 inch
$1,261
Untitled
Francesc Genovés
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$620
Untitled
Francesc Genovés
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$620
Le Coq dans tous ses états. sm 714
Jean-Paul Boyer
Sculpture - 55 x 58 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 22.8 x 3.9 inch
$1,451
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.