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Sérigraphie fluorescente - Chanoir x el Pez x el Xupet negre
Chanoir
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.005 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$615
Shadok La vie chante
Flo Hombecq
Sculpture - 38 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
$1,062
Not a balloon dog
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,913
Fondo marino - corales
Charo Velasco
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,453
Requin et colonne vertébrale de baleine
Jürg Kreienbühl
Print - 40.5 x 59 x 1 cm Print - 15.9 x 23.2 x 0.4 inch
$671
Skate Chanoir, Dégradation Tropicale
Chanoir
Print - 19.7 x 81 x 1 cm Print - 7.8 x 31.9 x 0.4 inch
$559
Skate édition dégradé de rose à jaune
Chanoir
Print - 80 x 19.7 x 1 cm Print - 31.5 x 7.8 x 0.4 inch
$559
Flemish snail
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 141 x 41 x 31 cm Sculpture - 55.5 x 16.1 x 12.2 inch
$11,068
Ornitologo, secondo Ernst Fuchs
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 35 x 24 x 0.5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.2 inch
$291
Portrait du peintre
Raya Sorkine
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$10,621
Amazing moose, no. I/VIII (size XL)
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 40.5 x 65 x 35 cm Sculpture - 15.9 x 25.6 x 13.8 inch
$5,478
Cavalcade
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 20.5 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.1 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
$3,242
Le cheval
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 27.5 x 28 x 11 cm Sculpture - 10.8 x 11 x 4.3 inch
$2,739
La chouette
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 33.5 x 12 x 11.5 cm Sculpture - 13.2 x 4.7 x 4.5 inch
$2,460
Primer PGO – illustration
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 27 x 45 x 0.2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$626
Nobility
Javier Prieto Meneses
Painting - 59.3 x 79.5 x 2 cm Painting - 23.3 x 31.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
Buster Brown and Tige
Brian Nash
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,450
Sans titre (Alice)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,012
Sans titre (tea time)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$839
Apaños y remiendos (Fixes and patches)
M. M. Calvo
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 12.2 inch
$1,006
Funny Pig-bottle stopper
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 5 x 4.5 x 3 cm Sculpture - 2 x 1.8 x 1.2 inch
$256
Bird with Long tail 6/25
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 4 x 10 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 3.9 x 1.4 inch
$425
Jkin chuu ngasundie (animals from earth)
Filogonio Naxín
Painting - 90 x 72 cm Painting - 35.4 x 28.3 inch
$1,509
La prima colazione
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 30 x 16 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 6.3 x 0.2 inch
$263
The voice of the mountain (tjara nindu)
Filogonio Naxín
Print - 45 x 62 cm Print - 17.7 x 24.4 inch
$839
Star (3 rats) (#2/8)
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 17 x 40 x 47 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 15.7 x 18.5 inch
$10,621
Nomadas on the beach II
Shengqi Tang
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$727
Nomadas on the beach I
Shengqi Tang
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$727
Stratagemmi d'amore
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 22 x 12 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8.7 x 4.7 x 0.1 inch
$129
Bouledogue Anglais
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 17 x 16 x 14 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 6.3 x 5.5 inch
$5,478
Making an entrance
Carley Cornelissen
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,621
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.