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Trompette de Virginie
Ludivine Corominas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,924
Oiseau totem d'abondance
Timothy Archer
Painting - 160 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$8,148
En souvenir de mon enfance, Calvin & Hobbes
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 inch
$113
Cock-a-doodle-do
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
$339
Fuck, Fuck & Refuck
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 25.6 inch
$339
Faune et flore à Solentiname (1)
Luis Alvarado
Painting - 75 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,395
Christmas Tree at the City Hall Square
Elena Lukina
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Arabian horse
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
Dreaming rabbit-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 35.5 x 35 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14 x 13.8 x 8.7 inch
$668
Follow your dreams
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 24 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$225
The Weight of Primal Impulse
Brad Sane
Painting - 101 x 76 x 5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 29.9 x 2 inch
$3,270
Orange Funny Dragon I
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 22.5 x 17 x 13 cm Sculpture - 8.9 x 6.7 x 5.1 inch
$583 $525
Study of lion and lioness
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 23.8 x 31 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12.2 x 0 inch
$622
Tiger at Rest
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 30.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 11.9 x 0 inch
$679
Foreground of a Lion
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 40.8 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
$566
A Loosely Woven Flock of Rooks
Ruth Thomas
Print - 50 x 25 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,197
Tête de Cheval I
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 29.2 x 15.2 x 33 cm Sculpture - 11.5 x 6 x 13 inch
$13,014 $11,712
Taureau Lamborghini
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 180 x 270 x 70 cm Sculpture - 70.9 x 106.3 x 27.6 inch
$6,166
The Tenderness Of Shulamite
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 180 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,753
Panthére en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 90 x 40 x 180 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 15.7 x 70.9 inch
$5,828
Cheval cabré Tag
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 40 x 10 x 26 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 3.9 x 10.2 inch
$10,072
Crabe rose / Pink crab
Boris Tabacoff
Sculpture - 10 x 15 x 5 cm Sculpture - 3.9 x 5.9 x 2 inch
$1,415
In the lap of your caress
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 204 x 193 x 2 cm Painting - 80.3 x 76 x 0.8 inch
$25,235
Panthère crackled bleu
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 17 x 40 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 15.7 x 3.5 inch
$12,335
Urban butterfly 2 Aporia graffitis
Sylvain Lang
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,037
Boxing Kong
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 180 x 97 x 144 cm Sculpture - 70.9 x 38.2 x 56.7 inch
$130,000
Portrait de Taureaux
Jean-Claude Mège
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,403
Portrait de Taureaux
Jean-Claude Mège
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,403
Portrait de Taureaux
Jean-Claude Mège
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,403
Through nine seas – cover
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 15 x 29 x 0.2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,041
Illustration – Patterned Minim
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 30 x 45.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,324
Tigre ajouré inox finition brillante 130
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 82 x 124 x 58 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 48.8 x 22.8 inch
$81,477
Kong Spirit (Pink Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 10 x 5 cm Design - 5.1 x 3.9 x 2 inch
$453
Ours rouge flamme
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 40 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.8 x 11 inch
$9,619
Sans titre (Bonnes fées)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 inch
$2,037
Lion skull
Michael Burgess
Fine Art Drawings - 71 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$1,358
Loup hurlant 40 Metallictic
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 32 x 36 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 14.2 x 4.7 inch
$8,374
Charging Bull No. 1
Mario Henrique
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,413
The Loch Ness Monster – cover illustration of a book from the ECO series
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 25 x 38 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$1,358
Look of a Bird
You Wu
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 13 x 0 inch
$905
Gorille "Bleu gorille"
Philippe Dias
Painting - 150 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,207
Vanité aux papillons rouges
Philippe Pasqua
Painting - 130 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$12,335
Cheval fantôme - série animaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,980
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.