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.
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Butterfly Park 11
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 65 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
Butterfly Park 10
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 65 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,800
My blue dog love Louis Vuitton
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 15 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 5.9 inch
€2,300
My parrot is a rapper
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
€2,300
My monkey is a rapper
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 24 x 20 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 7.9 x 6.3 inch
€2,300
“Encounters 4.0” Framed Painting
Mariah Birsak
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
Le Choc des titans - ours Orlinski/Pompon
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 27 x 51 x 11 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 20.1 x 4.3 inch
€8,000
The abstract eagle
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 190 x 85 x 77 cm Sculpture - 74.8 x 33.5 x 30.3 inch
€22,500
Tête de jeune Orang-Outan
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 21 x 14 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 5.5 x 5.9 inch
€3,700
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
€550
Butterfly Park 4
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 63.5 x 63.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 2 inch
€1,800
Cosmic Butterflies
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 28 x 94 x 4 cm Sculpture - 11 x 37 x 1.6 inch
€1,450
Butterfly Park 7
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 63.5 x 63.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 2 inch
€1,750
Butterflies Park 6
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 63.5 x 63.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 2 inch
€1,750
Paris, Triomphe du vivant
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€180
Paris, Pont Alexandre-III
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€180
Couple de Tigres du Bengale. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Squat de pêche à Ducos.
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 105 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,750
The I Like The Way You Kiss Me
Stephanie Godann
Painting - 27.5 x 27.5 x 4 cm Painting - 10.8 x 10.8 x 1.6 inch
€550 €495
Raw Complete Collection
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€5,000
Horse spirit (pearl grey edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 17 x 8 x 3.5 cm Design - 6.7 x 3.1 x 1.4 inch
€390
Noir et blanc, lithographie originale
Christophe Hohler
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.5 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0.2 inch
€660
Wild neck - blue céleste
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 44 x 110 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 43.3 x 17.7 inch
€18,900
N° 891 Quiétude dans la plaine
R. Cavalié
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Petit Rhino Pop Tagué
Miko-R
Sculpture - 55 x 35 x 40 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 13.8 x 15.7 inch
€2,800 €2,520
Seagulls in Flight
Elizabeth Becker
Painting - 66 x 92.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 36.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,230
The Empresses : H10-1 Wu Zetian
Damien Hirst
Print - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Print - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€4,950 €4,455
Wild Lens - Tiger
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - Toro
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
La couleur éclatante dans la lumière
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
On the old quay
Zhivko Mutafchiev
Painting - 95 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 1 inch
€2,500
La mélodie du bonheur
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,999 €2,850
L'heure bleue
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,650 €2,518
Immortal Crow Original Painting
Dervis Akdemir
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€494
Crow and Key of Heaven Original Painting
Dervis Akdemir
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€494
Heliugabalus Flowers
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 82 x 82 x 5 cm Painting - 32.3 x 32.3 x 2 inch
€3,460
Papillon et abeille. Provence
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,200