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Cityscape with distrustful bird
Geert Lemmers
Photography - 89.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,220
Plus on est de fous, plus on rit...
François Nasica
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,345
In Pieces - Dragonfly
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 64 x 80 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.2 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,028
Marbled majestic horse
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 17 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 6.7 x 3.9 inch
$252
Hey Josephine, Wazzup?
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,052
Dragonfly in my garden
Quynh Elisa Hoang
Painting - 100.1 x 71.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,800
Myth, muse and metaphor #5
Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,300
Goldfish XXXVI
Daniel Loveday
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,262
Hummingbirds at sunset
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 100.1 x 59.9 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,165
I'm not in a good mood
Richard Szkutnik
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 0.2 inch
$920
Turn exercises
Geert Lemmers
Photography - 81.3 x 99.1 x 2.5 cm Photography - 32 x 39 x 1 inch
$1,221
Can this be comedy cried the clown?
Jean Guy Morin
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 2 inch
$1,717
Elephant #24 - "One of the big five"
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 0.7 inch
$1,350
Gorilla - hominedea, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 78.7 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39 x 31 x 0.7 inch
$1,490
Grand tigre royal
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 167 x 60 x 160 cm Sculpture - 65.7 x 23.6 x 63 inch
$123,321
Dessin / Sans titre
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Fine Art Drawings - 69 x 79 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.2 x 31.1 inch
$897
Dessin / Sans titre
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 31.5 inch
$1,121
Red Tulips and one Dog's Tear - O, If Only You Knew - Song by Tchaikovsky
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$437
Grand jaguar couché
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 65 x 114 x 36 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 44.9 x 14.2 inch
$44,844
Panthère s'étirant, monumentale
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 91 x 201 x 30 cm Sculpture - 35.8 x 79.1 x 11.8 inch
$56,055
Bouquet printanier et canaris
Jean Jacques Boimond
Painting - 59 x 66 x 1 cm Painting - 23.2 x 26 x 0.4 inch
$1,533
Aigle ou Charognard?
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,727
Cha squelette rose
Chanoir
Fine Art Drawings - 153 x 103 cm Fine Art Drawings - 60.2 x 40.6 inch
$4,260
Trois guépards en course
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 21 x 43 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 16.9 x 3.9 inch
$8,969
Western
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 52.3 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 20.6 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,065
Cheval au galop
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,065
Elephant bathing in dust pixels
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$897
Petit Léopard sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 29 x 23 x 16 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 9.1 x 6.3 inch
$6,727
L'Oiseau des Îles et les fleurs
Paul Mathey
Painting - 28.5 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 11.2 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,382
Stories Scheherazade Certified II
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$213
Bird cage
Sebastian Riemer
Photography - 105 x 130 x 3 cm Photography - 41.3 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$7,848
La chevauchée fantastique
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,682 $1,177
Au commencement était le verbe
Kiss Dust
Print - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Print - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,682 $1,177
Wealth Bringing
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,009
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.