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Mundo azul mundo calabaza
Javier Ortega
Painting - 24 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$3,166
Grand Ours Polaire
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 22 x 42 x 14 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 16.5 x 5.5 inch
$10,065
Guspirus in the green
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 116 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 45.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,493
Chien aux Pierres Précieuses
Joanna Glazer
Sculpture - 25 x 45 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 17.7 x 7.9 inch
$554
Western
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 52.3 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 20.6 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,074
Cheval au galop
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,074
Cosa fa un elefante qua
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 28 x 12 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11 x 4.7 x 0.1 inch
$158
Petit poisson plumé
Agathe David
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 33 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$520
Cacciatore di uccelli
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$249
His Majesty the Puffin - Hvalnes, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 150 x 100 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 inch
$905
His Majesty the Stag - Wicklow Mountain, Ireland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 150 x 100 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 inch
$905
Island of 20,000 puffins - Lundey, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 100 x 150 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 inch
$905
The Cevennes gladiators, Cevennes
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
Déjeuner dans l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
$3,958
Stories Scheherazade Certified IV
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$215
Bird
Martin Bradley
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 57 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 22.4 x 0.1 inch
$3,619
The Walker and his Mule, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50.4 x 90 cm Photography - 19.8 x 35.4 inch
$565
A King in his forest 02, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
A rooster in the jungle, Bolivia
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
Her Majesty the Stork, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
Prince looking for princesses 01, Gambay
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50 x 100 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 inch
$565
The call of the air 02, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
Black beast in its woods 02, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50 x 100 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 inch
$565
Black beast in its woods 01, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 50 x 100 cm Photography - 19.7 x 39.4 inch
$565
An air of pink 03, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$565
His Majesty the Pelican, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$565
Her Majesty the Flamingo, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$565
Pink or black 02, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$565
Evening dancer 02, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$565
Evening dancer 01, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$565
Evening dancer 03, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$565
Pink or black 01, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$565
To life, to death, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
The call of water
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
Alcalin B&W, Ballestas Islands, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
Alcalin, Ballestas Islands, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
Uapameku, Tadoussac
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 56.25 x 90 cm Photography - 22.1 x 35.4 inch
$565
In the wake of a giant, Tadoussac
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 51 x 90 cm Photography - 20.1 x 35.4 inch
$565
An air of pink 04, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
An air of pink 01, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$565
Gaviotas
Felisa Esteban - Maifx
Painting - 162 x 130 x 1 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch
$3,053
Kaleidoscopio Alado XIII
Felisa Esteban - Maifx
Painting - 90 x 116 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 45.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,545
Kaleidosopio Alado X
Felisa Esteban - Maifx
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,545
Azul B
Pere Bennàssar Obrador
Sculpture - 60 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$2,318
Azul A
Pere Bennàssar Obrador
Sculpture - 60 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$2,318
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.