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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Coeur argenté
Béatrice Bost Le Moël
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,976
Cheval en galop gaalctique
Ari Setiawan
Sculpture - 134 x 130 x 30 cm Sculpture - 52.8 x 51.2 x 11.8 inch
$23,810
Cat
Novella Parigini
Fine Art Drawings - 67 x 47.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.4 x 18.7 x 0 inch
$655
Ancient Mariner (large hand signed giclee on canvas)
Robert Wyland
Print - 99.7 x 74.9 x 2.5 cm Print - 39.25 x 29.5 x 1 inch
$1,196
Woman with a white cat
Ewa Wróbel - Hultqvist
Painting - 30 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,191
Ready to start again (1)
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 62 x 90 x 3.3 cm Painting - 24.4 x 35.4 x 1.3 inch
$738
Asteroid RS (framed hand finished screen print)
DALeast
Print - 43.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Print - 17 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,063
Ra’ah (Shepherd)
Merenini Williams
Painting - 81.3 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 25 x 1 inch
$1,800
Le passeur et l'oiseau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$595
Nephertutruche - Série Portrait Autruche personnifiée
Anita Leray
Painting - 25 x 19 x 0.8 cm Painting - 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.3 inch
$226
The Crow
Helen Uter
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$595
Oeuvre N°1202
Peter Nabarlambarl
Painting - 76 x 58 x 0.4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,029
Ecureuil Squirrel 1987 KENJI BANLIEUE BANLIEUE
Kenji
Sculpture - 48 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
$1,726 $863
Poissons, citron et cuivre
Jules Jacques Olivier De Cocquerel
Painting - 45 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,649
Qui a cassé le vase?
Antonio Milone
Painting - 49.5 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.5 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,801
Dragon de Komodo
Damien Colcombet
Sculpture - 18 x 53 x 36 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 20.9 x 14.2 inch
$7,143
Las Gallinas
Marisa Escudero Cuervas-Mons
Painting - 54 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,429
Papillon Enchanté
Joël Moens
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,084
Débit de poissons
Clôdius Combas
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,429
Winter Landscape with Sheep
Brian King
Painting - 39.9 x 59.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$2,030
La légende du colibri rose dégradé
Marion Cros
Sculpture - 28 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,262
Portrait of leopard
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,429
A Delicate Balance
Serge Lecomte
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.9 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.75 inch
$2,000
Ours Pompon Klein
François Pompon et Yves Klein
Sculpture - 27 x 49 x 19 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 19.3 x 7.5 inch
$12,500
Laurie petite fille
Mariette Lydis
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 24.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9.7 x 0 inch
$714
1979 Chevaux Horses
Chen Chin
Painting - 110 x 53 x 0.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 20.9 x 0.2 inch
$8,929 $4,464
Promenade avec mon chat sur les épaules
William Goliasch
Painting - 128 x 69 x 2 cm Painting - 50.4 x 27.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,283
Rilke Murmuration
Jake Michael Singer
Sculpture - 182 x 144 x 105 cm Sculpture - 71.7 x 56.7 x 41.3 inch
$47,621
Untitled
Albert Debois
Fine Art Drawings - 51 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.1 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$667
Bouledogue Anglais
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 17 x 16 x 14 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 6.3 x 5.5 inch
$5,834
Les vaches
Jean Dubuffet
Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 32 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.6 x 12.6 inch
$53,573
Simba, Masai Mara, Kenya
Arno Elias
Photography - 132 x 132 x 2 cm Photography - 52 x 52 x 0.8 inch
$25,001
Sur les reflets du lac glacé, m’apportiez-vous un message de paix? Je vous embrassais déjà comme Noé aux bêtes familières.
François Pagé
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,429
Zebra
Farid Saâdi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$595
Lion Face On Graffiti Background
Mikko
Painting - 95 x 95 x 0.1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$2,024
Ma non era mai andato così in collera
Pablo Echaurren
Painting - 27 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 10.6 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$2,143
La Ville des Chats
Carmen Carpena
Painting - 50.8 x 60.96 x 2 cm Painting - 20 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$3,333
Gacko Bear Love pop art Lv Color
Stéphane Alaux
Sculpture - 27 x 26 x 21 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.2 x 8.3 inch
$1,536