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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Grand cerf bramant
Damien Colcombet
Sculpture - 28 x 34 x 13 cm Sculpture - 11 x 13.4 x 5.1 inch
€6,200
Vive les fleurs et les chats bleus
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
€129
Vive les fleurs et cool
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€250
Jouer sur le fil céleste - Représentation onirique, symbolique du fil du temps
Sylvie Robert Alonso
Painting - 20 x 20 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€155
« L’eau léchait… », à Giverny, pour Claude Monet
Sophie Lavine
Photography - 41 x 30.5 x 1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 12 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Le tigre "Yudaina"
Benjamin David
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,880
Naschender Schmetterling
Jutta Votteler
Print - 30 x 40 x 0.005 cm Print - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€190
Antédiluvien (cadre Croco) 1/1
Philip Richard
Photography - 180 x 58 x 2 cm Photography - 70.9 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
Drinking Your Tears
Anastasiia Grygorieva
Painting - 130 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,919
Vive les fleurs les chats qui surfent
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 17 x 12 x 5 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 4.7 x 2 inch
€250
Mon doux lapin !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 inch
€120
Notre Pioupiou tout bleu !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 inch
€120
Arod, The Accelerator
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 77.7 x 101.6 x 0.5 cm Photography - 30.6 x 40 x 0.2 inch
€2,598
Serpentine
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 94 x 104.1 x 0.5 cm Photography - 37 x 41 x 0.2 inch
€2,734
Notre délicat oiseau bleu !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€120
Notre tendre pioupiou !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€120
Notre pioupiou des jardins !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€120
La beauté fragile de notre Pioupiou !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€120
Soraya, veilleuse de l’aube
Beatrice Sartori
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,250
Végetaniamals 7
K TD
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 15 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,140
Le pipeau ça ne charme que les pigeons
Madame
Print - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€100
Vive les fleurs et les lapins jaunes
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 32 x 8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
€350
Waves
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
€2,800
La lame de l'Écume
Bill- William Larouche
Sculpture - 152.4 x 152.4 x 25.4 cm Sculpture - 60 x 60 x 10 inch
€9,752
Ram on Gold, Happiness into the House
Alexandra Papafotiou
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€240
Rooster in the Yard
Alexandra Papafotiou
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
€240
La danza de las libélulas
Aiko Iwakawa
Painting - 76 x 56 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 0.4 inch
€8,000
When My Feet Touch the Ground
Ariel Vargassal
Painting - 91 x 152 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 59.8 x 0.8 inch
€15,403
Hippocampe de cristal
Virginie DEVIN
Sculpture - 55 x 35 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 13.8 x 7.9 inch
€3,000
Trypocis Luxorosini
Steeven Salvat
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 31 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,440
Adones Pernula
Steeven Salvat
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 31 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,440
Naked Wisdom
Simon Hafele Psy-Pix
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,120
L'oiseau bleu
Maï
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€450
Le chêne à trois troncs n°1
Florian Song Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 58.5 x 39.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 15.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,950
Le chêne à trois troncs n°21
Florian Song Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 29.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Le chêne à trois troncs n°5
Florian Song Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 58.5 x 39.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 15.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,950
Le singe rouge
Hélène Lagnieu
Fine Art Drawings - 130 x 80 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€4,200
Cher Ami, oiseau fantastique ! 2
Mathilde Neri
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€900