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Architecture et goélands
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.4 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€650
Tête de léopard femelle III
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 38 x 33 x 26 cm Sculpture - 15 x 13 x 10.2 inch
€16,000
Jungle Book
Patrick Villas
Fine Art Drawings - 145 x 127 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 57.1 x 50 x 0.4 inch
€7,200
Le cochon et l'oiseau de proie
Timothy Archer
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€5,900
Planche d’étude VIII (Insectes)
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€700
L'Hirondelle - Abstraction et matière - série entre imaginaire et réel
Marie Mercier dite MALCQ
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€350
Bee hummingbird
Edgar Quispe
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 52 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 20.5 inch
€520
Grande panthère couchée sur branche
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 42 x 60 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 23.6 x 7.9 inch
€14,000
MIaooo abstrat VI
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
€500 €300
Nunavik - Les mines d'or et la faune au Canada
Jocelyne Texier dite Joce
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€365
Papillons d'eau - Composition abstraite
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€170
Papillons exotiques - Composition abstraite de la nature
Guénola Guézo
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€170
Skywalker & Yoda
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 26 x 19.5 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.7 x 2.2 inch
€600
Tandem d’Ewoks
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 26 x 19.5 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.7 x 2.2 inch
€600
Horses in Villacana
Elena Done
Painting - 146.1 x 97 x 4.1 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 1.6 inch
€4,295
Hummingbird and blue jay
Alexandra Romano
Painting - 61 x 61 x 7.6 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 3 inch
€3,716
White tiger - handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 14 x 30 x 7 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 11.8 x 2.8 inch
€171 €146
Dromadaires bleus
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€480
Through the Wastelands a brand new ssun rises
Panos Kampylis
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Lion royal, version or
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Yellow and Blue Dog, and Extraordinary Tulips
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490
Le Baiser dans les jonquilles - Tribute to Brancusi - Abstrait nu N°16
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€785
Family, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Daniel Clarke
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.2 inch
€614
Piaf violet clair brillant, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€290
Piaf violet brillant, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€290
The thinking monkey 2
Laureline Françoise Nicolas Veelo
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,618
Cousin
Laureline Françoise Nicolas Veelo
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,618
Horse and the child
Stavri Kalinov
Painting - 113 x 68 x 2 cm Painting - 44.5 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
€9,800
Flamant rose
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 80 x 103.6 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 40.8 x 0.2 inch
€1,100
Chien aux Pierres Précieuses
Joanna Glazer
Sculpture - 25 x 45 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 17.7 x 7.9 inch
€490
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.