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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Animal Le chat Soulage - Large
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
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Portrait Kitten - Cat - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
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French bulldog walking (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
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Alpha male
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 119.9 x 99.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.3 x 1 inch
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Magical Tea Time With Alice
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 7.9 x 0 inch
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Ce que la sirène m'a confié...
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 34 x 34 x 2 cm Painting - 13.4 x 13.4 x 0.8 inch
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Mélodie pour deux chatons et piano
Albena Vatcheva
Print - 21 x 15 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0 inch
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Destiny Unfolds, a Kingfisher Romance
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 61 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 48 x 1.5 inch
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Contes de sirènes
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 23.5 x 23.5 x 2 cm Painting - 9.3 x 9.3 x 0.8 inch
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Sonate pour deux et licorne 30x42 cm
Albena Vatcheva
Print - 42 x 30 x 0.01 cm Print - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
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Still life with bird and old camera
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
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Still life with bird and plane
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
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Still life with bird and microscope
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
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Still life with bird and polaroid
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
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Still life with bird, cup and lemon
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
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Viva la vida No.11
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 40.1 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Caught in the Act
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
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Chouette Hulotte
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 29 x 10 x 14 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 3.9 x 5.5 inch
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Roaring Lion Spirit (Petrol edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 5 x 5 cm Design - 5.1 x 2 x 2 inch
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Croco spirit (Purple Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 8 x 22 x 9.5 cm Design - 3.1 x 8.7 x 3.7 inch
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Wolf spirit (Pearl Grey Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 12 x 14 x 4 cm Design - 4.7 x 5.5 x 1.6 inch
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Midsummer witness, summer meadow abstract with deer
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
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Pair of vintage ceramic vases
Renato Bassanelli
Design - 27 x 20 x 10 cm Design - 10.6 x 7.9 x 3.9 inch
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Lièvre curieux
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 20 x 42 x 18 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 16.5 x 7.1 inch
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Lièvre à l'oeuf ailé
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 41 x 39 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 15.4 x 7.9 inch
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Lièvre à la tonnelle
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 40 x 38 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15 x 7.9 inch
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Magpie’s Citrus Moment
Gevorg Sinanyan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Still life with bird and plums
Gevorg Sinanyan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Noia i tigre
Gemma Rigau de Llobet
Painting - 118 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 46.5 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
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