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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Grues du Japon parade II
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 35 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 13.8 inch
$11,115
Charge de l’éléphant d'Afrique
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 23 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
$11,583
Grande baleine
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 45 x 40 x 25 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15.7 x 9.8 inch
$12,285
Trois oiseaux st john perse three birds
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 38 x 28 x 0.5 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0.2 inch
$1,158
Hommage a Colbert, mini
Stefano Bombardieri
Sculpture - 12 x 41 x 14 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 16.1 x 5.5 inch
$17,550
Kong Spirit (Pink Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 10 x 5 cm Design - 5.1 x 3.9 x 2 inch
$351
open sea, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Andrei Petkevich
Painting - 73.7 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29 x 45 x 1 inch
$3,280
My home: Dual pandas
Hong Yu
Painting - 251.61 x 251.61 x 19.35 cm Painting - 99.1 x 99.1 x 7.6 inch
$12,000
Made with louve loup enfants jumeaux mythologie
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 75 x 115 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 45.3 x 1.2 inch
$374 $300
Pigeon boulant
Armand Petersen
Sculpture - 24.2 x 20.3 x 14.5 cm Sculpture - 9.5 x 8 x 5.7 inch
$13,455
Stories Scheherazade Certified IV
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$292
N° 1228 Abu Gosh. Dans le village 3.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$562
Bones and butterflies
Alise Sheehan
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,500
Five Flowers and a Chameleon
Kat Zhivetin
Painting - 95 x 95 x 0.2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$890
Tiger in the Ether
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,922
Auteil Grandiose Grand Steplee chase paris GR1
Kalh Art Kalley
Painting - 21 x 29.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.2 inch
$152 $122
Crown du Berlais, Ecurie H&P Pilarski - Course Obstacle - Steeple chase
Kalh Art Kalley
Painting - 48 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 18.9 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$526 $369
Antilope couchée sans cornes - petite taille
Armand Petersen
Sculpture - 10.9 x 15.6 x 10.5 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 6.1 x 4.1 inch
$4,446
La chute- Chapitre 102 (Diptyque)
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$17,550
Les corbeaux volent sur le dos
Lionel Morateur
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$104
Lièvre fleuri
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 34 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
$1,404
Lièvre au jardin
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 36.5 x 35 x 17 cm Sculpture - 14.4 x 13.8 x 6.7 inch
$1,404
Albatros en vol
Jean Lemonnier
Sculpture - 127 x 31 x 25 cm Sculpture - 50 x 12.2 x 9.8 inch
$18,720
Conspiration
Zahra Zeinali
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$2,925
Waves
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,276 $3,112
A tournament of knights
Joe Lasker
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 66 x 5.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 26 x 2 inch
$2,400
You must remember to live
Joana Choumali
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$52,650
Spring sunshine in the highlands
Hoang Phuong
Painting - 100.1 x 180.1 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,500
Stronger Together
Bronle Crosby
Painting - 182.9 x 243.8 x 6.4 cm Painting - 72 x 96 x 2.5 inch
$12,500
My Home : Dual Pandas (2)
Hong Yu
Painting - 190 x 95 x 25 cm Painting - 74.8 x 37.4 x 9.8 inch
$12,000
Otarie - Petite taille,
Armand Petersen
Sculpture - 26.9 x 25 x 25.2 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 9.8 x 9.9 inch
$16,380
Textured butterfly
Hasmik Mamikonyan
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$130
Banc de phoques
Jean Lemonnier
Sculpture - 32 x 46 x 58 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 18.1 x 22.8 inch
$9,945
Vous avez dit bizarre ?
Zahra Zeinali
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$2,925
