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Dreaming in Sanskrit
Susan Rocklin
Painting - 160 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$9,463
A Cat on a Warm TV
Alexander (Sandro) Antadze
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,716
Le fantastique
Lee Berthille
Sculpture - 83 x 116 x 27 cm Sculpture - 32.7 x 45.7 x 10.6 inch
$3,961
Paris tonkar
Hasb
Fine Art Drawings - 29.8 x 41.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$543
Plumes de feu série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$509
Souviens-toi que le temps est un joueur avide
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$7,412
Tropiques-perroquet
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,697
L'éternelle attente
Pierre Sgamma
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$3,169
Le Carrousel
Jean-Jacques Kugel
Sculpture - 80 x 40 x 16 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 15.7 x 6.3 inch
$5,432
Treacherous
Shota Imerlishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 86 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 33.9 x 0 inch
$3,395
Cyclops (The Simpsons) 400% + 100%
Bearbrick
Design - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Design - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$453
Van Gogh Museum Self Portrait 400% + 100%
Bearbrick
Design - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Design - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$453
Hunting for Prey
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$4,866
The Pink Dress
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$4,244
Chien errant au Maroc
Lionel le Jeune
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,584
The Letter From Mr. Spring
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 23.9 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
$524
Where Do I Start?
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$524
The Strawberry Social
Derek Olson
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$3,357
Master of the Firmament
Bob Arrigo
Painting - 50.8 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$2,399
Fabulous streets of Marmaris
Andrey Chebotaru
Painting - 99.1 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39 x 35 x 1 inch
$4,000
ButifI Were Someone Else, Who Then Would Be Me?
Anna Bukhareva
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 1.2 inch
$4,413
Flore tropicale
Madeleine Colaço
Painting - 123 x 158 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 62.2 x 0.4 inch
$11,316
Your love with a cherry pie
Maria Mikileva
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,395
Arrivée de l'American Circus
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$1,358
Birds Guard II
Tadas Gutauskas TaDas
Sculpture - 19 x 24 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 9.4 x 3.9 inch
$2,716
Magic White: Two Horses
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$4,500
La Matriarche
Claudette Allosio
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$758
Regard Tigré
Claudette Allosio
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$758
Parrot bliss
Rinalds Vanadzins
Painting - 89.9 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,650
I also, want to profit
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Painting - 140 x 210 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 82.7 x 2 inch
$11,316
Cows Watching You Cry
Baurjan Aralov
Painting - 180 x 180 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 2 inch
$4,527
White rhino
Aurélie Trabaud
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
$622
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.