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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L'envole I - préchauffage
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 93 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
$2,574 $2,317
Promenade dans la forêt
Wilma Ramos
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$760
The strength of spirit
Plamen Kostov
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$936
Pilgrimage of Hope
Artyom Manukyan
Sculpture - 34 x 34 x 3 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 13.4 x 1.2 inch
$750
T'as eu ce que t'as eu
Petrus Von Tricht
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,340
Kleine pup met krulstaartje (Small pup with curly tail)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 12 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
$877
The Breakfast of the Goddess
Vahag Hamalbashyan
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,457
Victoria crowned pigeon 2
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$570
On the way home
Susumu Kamijo
Fine Art Drawings - 76.5 x 57 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.1 x 22.4 x 0.8 inch
$29,500
Cambodge, Prey Nup, Bantei Prey, jeune fille
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$585
Hija de la luna
Marta Grassi
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 75 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,053
Animal Painting #018-1632
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,825
Dolly dans les nuages
Patrick Moya
Sculpture - 30 x 14.5 x 5 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.7 x 2 inch
$877
Etude d'Elephant V
Christophe Drochon
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 2 inch
$2,808
Grand étirement
Pierre Voituriez
Sculpture - 62 x 80 x 24 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 31.5 x 9.4 inch
$11,700
Le chêne à trois troncs n°22
Florian Song Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 29.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,404
St. Giraffe and the Easter chick
Serge Lecomte
Painting - 101.6 x 83.8 x 1.9 cm Painting - 40 x 33 x 0.75 inch
$2,200
La méduse
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 29.5 x 7 x 12 cm Sculpture - 11.6 x 2.8 x 4.7 inch
$1,732
Gorilla and Hummingbird
Hani Badawi Leo
Print - 85 x 120 x 3 cm Print - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$819 $737
Falling Stars Les pids des reves- Tom & Jerry
Alexandre de Poplavsky
Sculpture - 56 x 30 x 40 cm Sculpture - 22 x 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$21,060
Le retour de l'Alpha (Tigre)
Christophe Drochon
Painting - 33 x 61 x 5 cm Painting - 13 x 24 x 2 inch
$16,380
Laure retour de match
Bertrand De Cointet
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$842
In the silence
Roman Rembovsky
Painting - 119.9 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$12,017
Cerf IX
Pierre Yermia
Fine Art Drawings - 51 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.1 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$702
Toro study
Marc Prat
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 120 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$913
The Freedom Rider
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,400
Apotheosis
Leona Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$585
The moon is generous
Galia Chuntova
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$877
Norman (small yellow bear head)
Austyn Taylor
Sculpture - 20.3 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm Sculpture - 8 x 8 x 7 inch
$1,521
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,521
Crabes & Carapaces
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,106
Butch Chanel: John, Robert and Michael, NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Space Cowboy - Moox White Edition Small
Jules Holland
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$813
Etat d'âme - série Portrait et l'oiseau
Michel Philippon
Painting - 58 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 22.8 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
$620
Corset, Portrait of an Equestrienne
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 45.7 x 34.8 x 0.5 cm Photography - 18 x 13.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,600
1952 Animaux surréalistes Fantastic Surrealistic World
Wolfgang Seuther
Print - 21 x 30 cm Print - 8.3 x 11.8 inch
$1,111
