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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Tea time in Paris with black cat, and Matisse's goldfish
Jiel
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2.2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.9 inch
€2,000
Painting in frame "Seven elephants of happiness/Still life with elephants" Natalie Shiporina
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
€2,900
La primer estrella
Marta Grassi
Painting - 116 x 153 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 60.2 x 1 inch
€4,000
Chat Persan
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 27.5 x 52 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.8 x 20.5 x 5.5 inch
€9,500
Princesse de la jungle
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,200
Through the time
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 200 x 150 x 0.4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.2 inch
€4,115
La chasse à la fleur
Christopher Lecoutre
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,400
Work isn’t going anywhere
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 110 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€3,498
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (3)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
€2,840
Buffalo
Joe Lasker
Fine Art Drawings - 35.6 x 43.2 x 5.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 17 x 2 inch
€2,187
Smoke on the water
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€1,360
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
€350
Une marche en Adélie
Gaelle Beyaert
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,860
Raw Jaune Epreuve d'artiste
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€990
Raw Vert Epreuve d'artiste
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€990
Raw Violet Epreuve d'artiste
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€990
Majestic Standing Horse
Arun A.
Sculpture - 218 x 66 x 256 cm Sculpture - 85.8 x 26 x 100.8 inch
€21,000
Jeu de piste - Voyage autour du monde
Chantal Dufour
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Still life with fishes
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€410
Curious Cow of Prairie - Act 4
Amogh Katyayan
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
€911
La crypte
Thierry Van Quickenborne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
La roue - Symbole des cartes de tarot
Espolisto
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
Boss Lion XXL
Yaniv Edery
Sculpture - 210 x 130 x 100 cm Sculpture - 82.7 x 51.2 x 39.4 inch
€95,000
Aquaplaning
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€79
Déforestation - Ma table de jardin
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€79
Premiers Signes
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€79
L'Homme est un rat pour l'Homme
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€79
Un esquimau dans le freezer
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€79
Magic White: Two Horses
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€4,101
Pond of Peacefulness
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.75 inch
€31,900
Pond of Peacefulness II
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 1.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.6 inch
€7,747
Verónica
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€6,100
Toro de nimes
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
€9,600
La gardienne de mon coeur
Agnès Robin
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 inch
€1,712
Tazmanian devil table
Phantom Art
Sculpture - 75 x 50 x 40 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 19.7 x 15.7 inch
€9,500
Whiskers on keys
Kamo Ohanyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€319 €272
Beautiful Life
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,900
Rise and Shine
Stella Zachariassen
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,900
" Pura Vida " , Vie pure
Catherine Clare
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€450
In the stable - Italian old painting
Guido Guidi
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€550
