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Le Loup The Wolf
Marko Zoric
Painting - 160 x 220 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 86.6 x 1.6 inch
$8,408 $4,204
Panthere Christian Lattier
Christian Lattier
Photography - 18 x 29 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.4 inch
$5,493
Raging bull VI 6 1938 (Large) French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,400 $1,968
Bug in the system
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Print - 64 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 25.2 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,924
Le Carrousel
Jean-Jacques Kugel
Sculpture - 80 x 40 x 16 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 15.7 x 6.3 inch
$5,381
Toro mosaïque multicolore
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 75 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
$5,381
Toro mosaïque dominante bleu
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 75 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
$5,381
Renaissance
Dave Baranes
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$8,296 $7,052
Sculpture Shetani Fermier
Agostino Malaba
Sculpture - 54 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,803
Alice dans la maison du L. Blanc
Wabé
Sculpture - 130 x 54 x 27 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 21.3 x 10.6 inch
$5,381
Across the univers
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
Sold
Rest of the Plastic Swans
Eleonora Drumeva
Painting - 60 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,960
The First Night of the Red Dress
Eleonora Drumeva
Painting - 140 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,484
Cheval mosaïque bleu
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 100 x 70 x 70 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 27.6 x 27.6 inch
$10,650
Portrait Frieze me Cat - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$2,803 $2,298
Sculpture Shetani homme et animal
Agostino Malaba
Sculpture - 100 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
$3,363
La femme au perroquet
Dorothy Payne
Painting - 194 x 161 x 1 cm Painting - 76.4 x 63.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,148
Petite souris à la feuille d'or
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 10 x 10 x 8 cm Sculpture - 3.9 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
$538
Petite souris à la feuille d'argent
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 10 x 10 x 8 cm Sculpture - 3.9 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
$538
Petite souris patinée noire
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 10 x 10 x 8 cm Sculpture - 3.9 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
$376
Animal Cat L'oeil qui ne contemple NSWE
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$504 $454
Où naissent les oiseaux
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$561
Le pacte de l'oiseau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$561
Le rêve du poisson
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$561
Le rêve du corps beau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$561
PS 233 La fauve s'habille en léopard - French school
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
$1,906 $1,639
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.