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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Animal

Grazing Horse

Pâturage

Sur la plage

Selfie plage

Ours au soleil

Maillot rouge

Friends

Bronzage

Surf rouge

Tatoué

Surfer

The Proud Traveler

Proud Horse

Mammouth Spirit V

Elephant

It snowed

Le Jaguar

La petite danse des papillons édition

Dali dog

Boston midinette

Golden little Panda

Silver Linings

And He Wears It Well

Bulls

La vache qui rit basquiat Colors

Les serpents de niki Colors

Chat cat Colors

Arsène Lapin VS Micheline Brebis

Wild Purity became Humanity

Végetaniamals 16

Végetaniamals 2

Alter Ego, Attitude Negative

Brutus

Grand Django

Grand joyeux

Maître chat

Grand Cha'marche bien!

Grand Funky

Cha'zen

Grand teckel

Cha'moureux

Grand Cha'mignon

King dog

L'oiseau Quoubira

From the Series In the Harmony with the Sun 7

The Girl and Her Cat

Seltener Vogel VIII

Tigre pochoir

Esprit

Teddy love Dior

Red dog (trib. to Haring)

Whale « baleak »

Kaws X Air Jordan Dior

Cattedrale liquida Un tempio che non ha pareti. Solo vibrazioni

Ronzio Non sono insetti. Sono lettere d'aria

In the Arms of Memory

Feline intimacy

Blue Elephant

Tipping point

Buse et boîte aux lettres

Suspendu

Omaggio a Colbert - mini edition P.S

Singing Robins

Cléopâtre

Panthera pardus

Petit cha vert - graffiti sur papier prêt à coller

Corail Danseur

Chevaux