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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Waves
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
£2,452 £2,330
Pikachu the Yellow Mouse
Remco Schakelaar
Painting - 80 x 60 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.62 x 2 inch
£1,314
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
£1,871
You must remember to live
Joana Choumali
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£39,411
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
£4,289
Princess from the Savannah
Wale Ajayi
Fine Art Drawings - 108 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 42.5 x 35.4 x 1 inch
£2,417
Anche le farfalle vogliono la libertà
Tonino Guerra
Print - 38 x 18 x 0.1 cm Print - 15 x 7.1 x 0 inch
£171
Foto segnaletiche della polizia
Tonino Guerra
Print - 38 x 18 x 0.1 cm Print - 15 x 7.1 x 0 inch
£171
Presenze su terreno sabbioso in Russia
Tonino Guerra
Print - 18 x 38 x 0.1 cm Print - 7.1 x 15 x 0 inch
£171
Tutte le scale portano alle campane
Tonino Guerra
Print - 38 x 18 x 0.1 cm Print - 15 x 7.1 x 0 inch
£171
Stronger Together
Bronle Crosby
Painting - 182.9 x 243.8 x 6.4 cm Painting - 72 x 96 x 2.5 inch
£9,747
My Home : Dual Pandas (2)
Hong Yu
Painting - 190 x 95 x 25 cm Painting - 74.8 x 37.4 x 9.8 inch
£9,357
Otarie - Petite taille,
Armand Petersen
Sculpture - 26.9 x 25 x 25.2 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 9.8 x 9.9 inch
£12,261
Textured butterfly
Hasmik Mamikonyan
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
£101
Banc de phoques
Jean Lemonnier
Sculpture - 32 x 46 x 58 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 18.1 x 22.8 inch
£7,444
Vous avez dit bizarre ?
Zahra Zeinali
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
£2,190
La mouette chef d'escadrille
Timothy Archer
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
£2,803
L'oiseau au bec d'argent !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£88
Notre Pioupiou d'amour !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£79
Nos amours d'hirondelles !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
£79
L'oiseau vert fleuri du jardin !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£88
Notre Pioupiou arc-en-ciel !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£79
La mouette !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£79
Notre Tendre Pioupiou !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£79
L'oiseau au grand bec !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£79
L'oiseau du jardin !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£88
L'oiseau vert du jardin !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
£79
L'oiseau à l'oeil rouge !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 22 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£79
L'enchanteur !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 22 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£79
Mon doux Pioupiou !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 inch
£88
Arrière-plan
Zahra Zeinali
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,664
Dress Code
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,240
Staring Lions
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£3,240
Tallest in the Building
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£3,503
Satirs and stripes
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 100 x 67 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
£3,503
Waltz of the whales
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 121 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 47.6 x 0.8 inch
£3,240
Water ballet
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£3,240
Passereaux trépassés 10 : Moineau femelle
Thierry Robert
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£263
Years of harmony
Tsukasa Tamai
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 34.7 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 13.7 x 0.2 inch
£1,226
To Helles and Bat
Will Eskridge
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
£2,526
