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.

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A Brand New Day

La fontaine des Girondins

Flower Cat

Lyon 2100

Love Sharks

Le lapin blanc

Elena

Les oiseaux bleus

Rencontre

Pand'ours pop art Dior red

Les chats du bonheur

Kong Penseur Spirit

Palabres dans l'étang

N° 1065 The best place

N° 1018 Espressivo con tenerezza.

Graff & Griff

Passaggio a sud est

N° 997 Le Renard et les Poulets d'Inde

Petit panda Pink

Mondrian pas sec

Underwater Painting Red Expression was made underwater

Uni-Cone Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor

La pieuvre, le poulpe, le pouffre en argot sétois

Wild Lens - KANGAROO

Wild Lens - ELK

Wild Lens - Dromadary

Wild Lens - Horse XXIV

Wild Lens - Horse XXII

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Wild Lens - Horses X

Wild Lens - Horses IX

Wild Lens - Horses VII

Wild Lens - Horses IV

Wild lens - Elephant XXIV

Wild lens - Elephant XX

Wild lens - Big Five I

Drôles d'oiseaux !

Horse

Black tiger

Tropical huntress

Set table

Playing with cat

Red maiden. Dragonfly. 3

Red maiden. Dragonfly. 2

Red maiden. Dragonfly. 1

Défendez-moi 89

Regality

Rabbits, Light in the Forest

Le Voyage Fantastique II

De la Série "Les Créatures d'Adamu"

Rainbow Unicorn Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor

A song of nature

Banksy turtle silver II

My Heart in Two States

Who will be Silent in a Moon or Two

Girl with a Lamb

Tico-Uno