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Âne charrette
Nourreddine Guesmia
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,776
La grenouille
Serge Van de Put
Sculpture - 40 x 45 x 40 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 17.7 x 15.7 inch
$3,885
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
$332
Help!
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$332 $166
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
$332
Sacrifices made to the nymphs
Marc Chagall
Print - 42 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$7,168
Steinbockfrau
Stephan Balkenhol
Sculpture - 68 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
$31,634
Pachyderme que ça !
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$332
Ours de Garde
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$332 $166
Montreal 1976
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$332 $166
LA JOLIE DANSE DES PAPILLONS
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,104
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
$332
Vaches d'appartement
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$332
La Colombe et le chat
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$332
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
$332 $166
Dragon des mers
Jean-Claude Giangreco
Painting - 61 x 117 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 46.1 x 1.2 inch
$3,330
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
$332
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
$332 $166
American Dream
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$332
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
$332
Birds Guard II
Tadas Gutauskas TaDas
Sculpture - 19 x 24 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 9.4 x 3.9 inch
$2,664
Smell of Bubble Gum
Tamta Chachanidze
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$666
La Matriarche
Claudette Allosio
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$744
Regard Tigré
Claudette Allosio
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$744
Le Baiser dans les jonquilles - Tribute to Brancusi - Abstrait nu N°16
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$760
See the Emotion
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 95 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,775
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
$4,600
Cows Watching You Cry
Baurjan Aralov
Painting - 180 x 180 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 2 inch
$4,440
White rhino
Aurélie Trabaud
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
$610
A song of nature
Aurélie Trabaud
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,998
Bug in the system
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Print - 64 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 25.2 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,885
Dreaming in Sanskrit
Susan Rocklin
Painting - 160 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$9,282
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
$2,664
L’imprévisible futur
Jocelyne Deschamps-Kus
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,997
Non, Mr Trump, Le Groënland n'est pas à vendre
Jocelyne Deschamps-Kus
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,775
L'accueil
Jocelyne Deschamps-Kus
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$4,218
Dignity Colibri Red & Gold
Ernesto Yerena Montejano
Print - 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.1 cm Print - 8 x 10 x 0 inch
$221
Au pied de la lettre
Maïté Martinez
Sculpture - 21 x 8.5 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 3.3 x 5.9 inch
$4,218
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
$533
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
$4,440
Birds of America | May 19 Least Tern 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$388
Birds of America | Long Build Curlew 3 June 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 20 x 32 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$388
Birds of America | Snowy Egret May 12 2010
Alke Schmidt
Painting - 32 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$388
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
$499
Tropiques-perroquet
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,665
L'éternelle attente
Pierre Sgamma
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$3,108
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.