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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A Better Friend 2
Olamilekan Okunade
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,950
A Better Friend 1
Olamilekan Okunade
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,950
Imp of Reflection
Olamilekan Okunade
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,950
Ducks
I Ketut Agus Murdika
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,989 $1,392
Le bonheur tardif
Christian Silvain
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$17,550
Best Target Shot - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Horse Rider
Wasiu Adelakun
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,850
Leone, serie Segni zodiacali
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 19 x 19 x 0.2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
$91 $78
Cancro, serie Segni zodiacali
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 19 x 19 x 0.2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
$91 $78
Sheep With Flower
Maia Kvatchadze
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,340
Portrait du peintre
Raya Sorkine
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$11,115
Aquamarine Ocean
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 51 x 51 x 3 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,106
Au-delà des montagnes, au-delà des rivières...
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 97 x 146 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 1 inch
$7,604 $7,225
Les 4 éléments
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$6,434 $6,113
Cacciatrice di farfalle
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 36 x 33 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 13 x 0 inch
$257 $219
Ornitologo, secondo Ernst Fuchs
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 35 x 24 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
$304
Feeding The Birds
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$491
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
$2,281
In Pieces - Dragonfly
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 64 x 80 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.2 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,028
Rare Bored Ape Bowie
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,158
La victoire de George
Albena Vatcheva
Print - 42 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$116 $111
Secret Nature
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 20.5 x 29 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.1 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,808
Mr Chat orange
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 100 x 50 x 6 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 19.7 x 2.4 inch
$5,265 $4,738
Natura morta con teiera
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 35 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$456 $388
Le Chat Noir avec le Collier Poofy
Brian Nash
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,400
I'm right here silly dog
Brian Nash
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,650
The Brady Bunch (plus 3)
Brian Nash
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1 inch
$1,650
Odieuse créature
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$760
Elephant - Eléphant
Zachariah Njobo
Sculpture - 90 x 50 x 20 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 19.7 x 7.9 inch
$4,446
Fashion handbag
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,341
Animal octopus walk - Large - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,053
A part of shadow and light
France Courpotin
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,510
Spaventapasseri
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 20 x 18 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
$175 $150
Lucky fishermans
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,265
Début du monde : la terre - série Paysage et histoire du monde
Michel Philippon
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,755