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Singe bleu au cigare
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 18 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 7.1 inch
$671
Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus - 1916-38, 1931-741
Stéphane Belzère
Painting - 250 x 170 cm Painting - 98.4 x 66.9 inch
$17,895
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
$10,625
Lion in the bushes
James Mutisya
Painting - 119 x 117 x 2 cm Painting - 46.9 x 46.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
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
Miniatuur Giraffe
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 53 x 47 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 18.5 x 1.2 inch
$727
Carnaval 1975 Saint Petersbourg Carnival
Mikhail Chemiakine
Print - 55 x 45 cm Print - 21.7 x 17.7 inch
$1,107
Un amour de salamandre
Samsofy
Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.5 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
$67
Teddy Love Chrome - Noir & Rose
Nicolas Krauss
Sculpture - 23 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,796
Etude de "La bataille de Näfels"
Henri Fehr
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 44 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 17.3 x 0.1 inch
$832
Préparation d'affiche "Fête des fleurs, Genève"
Henri Fehr
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 29 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$914
Teddy Love Chrome - Silver & Red
Nicolas Krauss
Sculpture - 23 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,796
Teddy Love Chrome - Black & Red
Nicolas Krauss
Sculpture - 33 x 28 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13 x 11 x 5.9 inch
$4,362
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
Flamingo
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 69.9 x 79.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 31.4 x 1 inch
$1,700
Seagulls
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 59.9 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$1,600
La visite des lapins
Barbara Petit Lisy
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,195
Cavalcade
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 20.5 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.1 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
$3,244
Le cheval
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 27.5 x 28 x 11 cm Sculpture - 10.8 x 11 x 4.3 inch
$2,740
La chouette
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 33.5 x 12 x 11.5 cm Sculpture - 13.2 x 4.7 x 4.5 inch
$2,461
Por tu Boca - Through Your Mouth
Peperina Magenta
Print - 49.5 x 69.9 x 1.9 cm Print - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.75 inch
$3,600
Applause Please
Tamta Chachanidze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
Let's go faster
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 40.9 x 58.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.2 x 1 inch
$2,000
Behind the Door
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 96 x 147 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 57.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
Swan_01
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,390
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
Bedouin Camel
Anthony Horth
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.2 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$1,100
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.