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I Hissing
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$1,132
Coral Sea Conservation Diving Adventures
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 94 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 37 x 0.1 inch
$980
The black bird flies out of your sing with the fruit
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,924
Start your wandering journey
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,924
L'arrivée de la pluie
Luciana Benitez Renteria
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,263 $1,697
TAIWAN MUSEUM 1988 Union
Liu Yang Jer
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$911 $456
Le P'tit Kong
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$13,580
Éléphant et son ballon purple
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 56 x 22 x 22 cm Sculpture - 22 x 8.7 x 8.7 inch
$9,619
From the collection : Around about n°1220
Hamid Reza Fotouhi
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
$1,697
Éléphant de guerre, 1866
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 50 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,471
Couple de léopards jouant
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 98 x 68 x 66 cm Sculpture - 38.6 x 26.8 x 26 inch
$67,898
Les Salins aux flamands
Juan Benito
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$781
Friends
Katarina Olympia Zaraj
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$628 $566
Léopard assis
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 90 x 55 x 40 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 21.7 x 15.7 inch
$31,686
Au commencement était le verbe
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,697
Léopard jouant au ballon
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 45 x 28 x 20 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 11 x 7.9 inch
$11,316
Rhino Danseur Big
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 140 x 50 x 70 cm Sculpture - 55.1 x 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$16,409
Adventures of Jimbo
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 51.1 x 76.5 x 4.1 cm Painting - 20.1 x 30.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,310
The change of seasons
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 89.9 x 89.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,965
Just the two of us
Jean Guy Morin
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,512
Cityscape with distrustful bird
Geert Lemmers
Photography - 89.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,220
In Pieces - Dragonfly
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 64 x 80 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.2 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,028
Les arbres girafes
Angelo Pioppo
Painting - 27 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$770 $385
Iroise - série mer et poissons
Sylvie Vandensteendam
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,415
Hey Josephine, Wazzup?
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,052
Dragonfly in my garden
Quynh Elisa Hoang
Painting - 100.1 x 71.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,800
Myth, muse and metaphor #5
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,300
Goldfish XXXVI
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,262
Hummingbirds at sunset
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 100.1 x 59.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,165
I'm not in a good mood
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 0.2 inch
$920
Turn exercises
Geert Lemmers
Photography - 81.3 x 99.1 x 2.5 cm Photography - 32 x 39 x 1 inch
$1,221
Can this be comedy cried the clown?
Jean Guy Morin
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 2 inch
$1,717
South of Taos, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.2 inch
$2,070
Elephant #24 - "One of the big five"
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 0.7 inch
$1,350
Gorilla - hominedea, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 78.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39 x 31 x 0.7 inch
$1,490
Rhino #4, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 119.4 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 47 x 39 x 0.7 inch
$1,800
Panthère sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 158 x 105 x 68 cm Sculpture - 62.2 x 41.3 x 26.8 inch
$73,556
Life is a bubble
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 24 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$225
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.