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Femme dans les nuages
Gris De Garance
Painting - 30 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
€100
Alpage de l'Alpe du Lauzet, Hautes-Alpes, de la série Sur les chemins du Briançonnais
José Nicolas
Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
€500
Elephant Spirit (Pink edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 14 x 12 x 5 cm Design - 5.5 x 4.7 x 2 inch
€300
508 Blue striped grunts school
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 71 x 107 x 2 cm Print - 28 x 42.1 x 0.8 inch
€650
Wild Kong oil tag
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 44 x 25 x 12 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 9.8 x 4.7 inch
€12,900
Lost in the Luna park
Joanna Raad
Painting - 38 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
€1,031
Théorie sur l'évolution : Poisson en baskets 1
Guillaume Nicolaou
Painting - 67 x 71 x 4 cm Painting - 26.4 x 28 x 1.6 inch
€1,400
Femme au papillon
Christine Guillemin
Sculpture - 35 x 21 x 25 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 8.3 x 9.8 inch
€5,800
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
€3,500
Le dompteur
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 8.9 inch
€800
Mitsuko
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 126 x 66 x 4 cm Painting - 49.6 x 26 x 1.6 inch
€1,957
Banc de poissons #15
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€550
Saint Georges tout seul et le dragon
Robert Combas
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
Aurum 20
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 42.5 x 35.5 x 5 cm Painting - 16.7 x 14 x 2 inch
€1,040
Aurum 19
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 42.5 x 35.5 x 5 cm Painting - 16.7 x 14 x 2 inch
€1,040
Stockholm Syndrome
Jacques Tange
Painting - 120 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€6,200
Boîte de Petri #12
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€650
Giraffe and her three daughters
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 77 x 16 x 23 cm Sculpture - 30.3 x 6.3 x 9.1 inch
€5,900
The problem with the wolf
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 25 x 48 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 18.9 x 3.9 inch
€6,000
NAOR - 35cm Teddy Ferrari Tribute
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
€650
Minotaure aux tétines
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€420
Aurum 3
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 42.5 x 35.5 x 4 cm Painting - 16.7 x 14 x 1.6 inch
€1,101
WILD KONG 80 TAG mat
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 80 x 65 x 33 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 25.6 x 13 inch
€29,900
Le Majestueux - série poisson
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,750
Geometry of a Bullfinch
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 38.5 x 42 x 4 cm Painting - 15.2 x 16.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,040
Dieu est un chien (God is a Dog)
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€800
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 50 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 19.7 inch
€3,400
La chasse au buffle
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
Python
Pauline Di Valentin
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€700
Sans titre
Vladimir Velickovic
Fine Art Drawings - 32.5 x 20.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.8 x 8.1 inch
€1,150
Pisces zodiac, Horoscope fish
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,699
3D gold silver mirror butterfly
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,999
Horse red old school
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 25 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 9.8 inch
€1,350
Vie nocturne
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,180
Étude pour "Malou cavalière"
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 76 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 29.9 inch
€4,100
Shark Spirit (Aqua Blue Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 14 x 10 x 8 cm Design - 5.5 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
€299
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.