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Coral Reef Painting Ocean Art Underwater Seascape Original Painting
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,522
Tête de lièvre n°8/8
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 46 x 21 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 8.3 x 7.9 inch
$4,597
My friends in Hawaii (Boo enjoys swimming)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
My friends in Hawaii (Maitai)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
My friends in Hawaii (Chip is sitting on the top)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
My friends in Hawaii (Tori on kayaking)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
My friends in Hawaii (Santiago loves to paddle)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
My friends in hawaii (Teddy in ab slider)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
My friends in Hawaii (Kong is ready to surf)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
My friends in Hawaii (Teddy gets a new car)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
My friends in Hawaii (Ziggy in troble)
Jullia Kim
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
Enfant avec poisson
Ivan Theimer
Sculpture - 17.5 x 6 x 6 cm Sculpture - 6.9 x 2.4 x 2.4 inch
$6,727
Moonlight Sonata (4)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 177.8 x 177.8 cm Photography - 70 x 70 inch
$50,000
Moonlight Sonata (3)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 152.4 x 152.4 cm Photography - 60 x 60 inch
$20,000
Moonlight Sonata (2)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 114.3 cm Photography - 45 x 45 inch
$10,000
Lady and The Lion (2)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$10,000
Chimpanzee #16
Brad Wilson
Photography - 76 x 110 x 0.2 cm Photography - 29.9 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$4,709
Memories of summer (1)
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,139
Untitled
Joan Albert
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 47 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$673
Nothing To Be Gained Here
Jeff Nachtigall
Painting - 122 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,568
¿Cuándo, dónde y por qué?
Richard García
Painting - 40 x 35 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 13.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,760
Celestial Dreamer - JALAL TOUFIC'S RADICAL CLOSURE
Manar Ali Hassan
Print - 35 x 25 x 1 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$600
Majestic nishikigoi in metal splendor : aqueous grandeur scarlet
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 75 x 100 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.5 x 39.4 inch
$26,906
Majestic nishikigoi in metal splendor : aqueous grandeur silver
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 80 x 75 x 100 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.5 x 39.4 inch
$26,906
Bear CD Tribute, Blue Collar
Naor
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 3.5 inch
$1,289
Els gossos també somien
Salvador de Batlle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,242
Une aventure rhinoferroviere
Christophe Ronel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,615
Three Handed
Tamar Sulakvelidze
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,157
Rampant horse on the sea - Italian painting & frame
Romano Mussolini
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$729
Le Même Allant
François Vandenberghe
Sculpture - 26 x 25 x 60 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 9.8 x 23.6 inch
$15,471
Dhibka
François Vandenberghe
Sculpture - 50 x 29 x 26 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 11.4 x 10.2 inch
$15,471
Le Morse - série Sculpture bois animaux
Matthieu Libault
Sculpture - 37 x 37 x 11 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 14.6 x 4.3 inch
$2,522
Le Bison - Sculpture bois animaux
Matthieu Libault
Sculpture - 38 x 30 x 24 cm Sculpture - 15 x 11.8 x 9.4 inch
$3,083
Paix
L'encredufauve
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 22.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 8.9 x 0.2 inch
$392
Finding Beauty (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 177.8 x 177.8 cm Photography - 70 x 70 inch
$50,000
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.