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UrbanCat Porcelain edition
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 21 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,684
Beautiful Life
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,125
Rise and Shine
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,125
Ready to start again (1)
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 62 x 90 x 3.3 cm Painting - 24.4 x 35.4 x 1.3 inch
$693
In 2 Future
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
Uncharted Drive
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,474
Uncharted Heights
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$5,592
Uncharted Speed
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,474
Planche d’étude VIII (Insectes)
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$783
Diamond Dust Bunny (Original Contemporary Oil on Canvas)
Hunt Slonem
Painting - 27.9 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 11 x 9 x 0.5 inch
$8,750
L'Hirondelle - Abstraction et matière - série entre imaginaire et réel
Marie Mercier dite MALCQ
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$391
Profitable Freude
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,901
His Majesty the Puffin - Hvalnes, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 150 x 100 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 inch
$895
His Majesty the Stag - Wicklow Mountain, Ireland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 150 x 100 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 inch
$895
Island of 20,000 puffins - Lundey, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 100 x 150 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 inch
$895
The Cevennes gladiators, Cevennes
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$559
Déjeuner dans l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
$3,915
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
$3,100
Le bonheur tardif
Christian Silvain
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$16,777
The cat with the pearl earring
Eva Goubin
Painting - 20.32 x 20.32 x 3 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 1.2 inch
$895
Giving Up Is Not An Option 2
John Alogi
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 inch
$3,500
Dress Code
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,138
Staring Lions
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,138
Tallest in the Building
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,474
Satirs and stripes
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 100 x 67 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,474
Waltz of the whales
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 121 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 47.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,138
Water ballet
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,138
Lava Landscape
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
Seal of Treasures
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,355
Koomote one: Believing in the freedom of flight
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
$1,734
Koomote two: Believing in the grace of flight
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
$1,734
Couple and the horse
Theo Mackaay
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$6,655
State of the Nation
Omoyemi Ogedengbe
Painting - 121.9 x 106.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 42 x 1 inch
$4,000
Girl from Gombe
Abifola Olorunlana
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,800
Butterfly Bombshell
Helder Batista
Sculpture - 100 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
$13,422
Igbo Amaka (Igbo is Beautiful)
Omoyemi Ogedengbe
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,800
Flowers and hummingbirds
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 80 x 61 x 3.6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 24 x 1.4 inch
$655
California Dreaming 8/2AP
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
El Universo - The Universe
Peperina Magenta
Print - 99.1 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Print - 39 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$5,200
No such border
Jessica Houston
Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,125
..…instead of a narrow bight there was a considerable bay, full of the beautiful and terrific orca whales playing and spouting in the sunshine of that brilliant southern spring.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,013
Piaf violet mat, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$324
The thinking monkey 2
Laureline Françoise Nicolas Veelo
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,928
Cousin
Laureline Françoise Nicolas Veelo
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,928
The Walker and his Mule, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50.4 x 90 cm Photography - 19.8 x 35.4 inch
$559
A King in his forest 03, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$559
A King in his forest 02, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$559
A rooster in the jungle, Bolivia
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$559
Her Majesty the Stork, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$559
Prince looking for princesses 01, Gambay
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50 x 100 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 inch
$559
The call of the air 02, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$559
Black beast in its woods 02, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50 x 100 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 inch
$559
Black beast in its woods 01, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50 x 100 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 inch
$559
His Majesty the Pelican, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$559
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.