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Pinchas (Maryan) Burstein
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$1,705
Little World
Jia Yuan Hua
Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 52 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 20.5 x 0 inch
$2,274
Monkey with banana
Harita Asumani
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,933
La Fenice (The Phoenix)
Ugo Nespolo
Sculpture - 35.6 x 17.8 x 12.7 cm Sculpture - 14 x 7 x 5 inch
$1,100
At the water's edge / A fleur d'eau
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 10.5 x 30 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.1 x 11.8 x 3.9 inch
$2,217
Sapeur girafe
Boureima Ouedraogo
Sculpture - 37 x 29 x 18 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 11.4 x 7.1 inch
$966
Fleeing to Egypt
Eugenio Larminiani
Painting - 54 x 72.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.5 x 0 inch
$1,705
Peacock Moon Sun
Wysszbar
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$1,017 $509
Black Minous
Chanoir
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.001 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,364
Les Mange-Peurs, La Nuit + Collage
Olivier Tenedor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 33 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$227
La malveillance déguisée en bienveillance
Philippe Jacq
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,842
1987 Le Tigre et le Sage The Tiger and the Monk
Song Jiha
Print - 102 x 82 cm Print - 40.2 x 32.3 inch
$2,217
Ours blanc 3/4 - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,064
Chien Pigeon Paris 1978 Paris Dog Pigeon
Pierre Van Poucke
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$739
Dark Passanger
David Krovblit
Photography - 91 x 91 x 10 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 3.9 inch
$13,000
The violinistt and his furry friend
Yulia Dvoiris
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$700
Abstract Butterflies
Sarah Boisvert
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$4,600
El tigre y las cabras con retrete /le tigre et les chèvres avec toilettes
Julio Alonso Yañez
Sculpture - 23 x 22 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 8.7 x 7.1 inch
$1,023
Spelende honden (Playing dogs)
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Print - 60 x 50 x 0.02 cm Print - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,023
La Girafe
Sylvain Subervie
Sculpture - 400 x 177 x 177 cm Sculpture - 157.5 x 69.7 x 69.7 inch
$70,480
Femme guerrière et cheval
Caroline Crozat
Painting - 200 x 150 x 6.5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 2.6 inch
$7,957
Pêche du lendemain
Benoît Mercier
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 6.3 inch
$1,364
Pair of vintage ceramic vases
Renato Bassanelli
Design - 27 x 20 x 10 cm Design - 10.6 x 7.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,250
Ordinary miracle
Eleonora Taranova
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,863
Le visage vert
Germain Van der Steen
Painting - 63 x 48 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.8 x 18.9 x 0 inch
$1,364
Animal fantastique
Germain Van der Steen
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.3 x 0 inch
$966
Farandole andine...
Patricia Henricy Cruzalegui
Painting - 30 x 79 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 31.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,137 $1,023
Oh Dear (Blue Heart)
Paco Raphael
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$1,819
Renaissance Papillon 1990 Butterfly Paon du Jour
Jean Lodge
Print - 38 x 28 x 0.3 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,080
Happy Toys
Elene Melikidze
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,478
Jellyfish nebula
Tiffani Buteau
Painting - 121.9 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$2,100
Femme au panier de fleurs sauvages
Edouard Duparc
Painting - 50 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,455
Le loup DIEU THOT GOD The wolf
Jean-Pierre Malaussena
Fine Art Drawings - 53.5 x 28.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.1 x 11.2 inch
$1,421 $710
Dolly dans les nuages
Patrick Moya
Sculpture - 30 x 14.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.7 x 2 inch
$1,114
Les pinces bleues - série mer et crustacés
Sylvie Vandensteendam
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
The Kalaw (Philippine Hornbill)
James Doran-Webb
Sculpture - 118 x 40 x 40 cm Sculpture - 46.5 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$4,356
Tribute to Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Obey, Banksy, Picasso, C215
Joy Austin
Print - 60 x 45 x 1 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$188
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.