Société sous-marine, aquagravure
Hervé Di Rosa
Print - 52 x 62 x 1 cm Print - 20.5 x 24.4 x 0.4 inch
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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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Le besoin de liberté
Moustache Bleue
Painting - 97 x 82 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 32.3 x 1 inch
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Le mini Chat au journal
Philippe Geluck
Sculpture - 21 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
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Fish and Lemons by the sea II
Gordon Hopkins
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
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Healing Greenland, Flying Cream and Chunja
Shin Seung-Hun
Painting - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
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La dolce vita
Gabrielle Rul
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
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Abstract Panther Gold
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 140 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 55.1 inch
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Wild Kong crackled pink
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 3.5 inch
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Wild kong crackled red
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 4.3 inch
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Horse Spirit (Pearl Grey Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 17 x 8 x 8 cm Design - 6.7 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
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Schmierwurscht n°9, gravure originale
Raymond Waydelich
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.5 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
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Schmierwurscht n°8, estampe originale
Raymond Waydelich
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.5 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
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The beauty of the jungle
Trayko Popov
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Gorilla black money business
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 130 x 75 x 115 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 29.5 x 45.3 inch
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Pand'ours pop art Dior blue
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
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La nature est un temple I
Augustin Frison-Roche
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
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La Nature est un temple IV
Augustin Frison-Roche
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
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House of the Cheetah ll painting
Mariah Birsak
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
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Being is love / 379
Christine Zanella
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
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Deux Carpes Koï - II
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 inch
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Keith haring turtle
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
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Banksy Cat turtle silver
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
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Bitcoin turtle
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
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Dessin / Sans titre
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
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Swallows in Flight No. 45
Elizabeth Becker
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
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223 Butterfly Spinpainting with Diamond Dust
Punk Me Tender
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
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Illustration cover of a book from the ECO series 1
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 30 x 54 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
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