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Jean, portrait de Doudou
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 25.6 inch
$284
Kong baril tag
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 45 x 25 x 16 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 9.8 x 6.3 inch
$14,664
En sortant de la forêt
Emmanuelle Tenailleau
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,364
La passante
Emmanuelle Tenailleau
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,250
T-Rex Tagué 110
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 80 x 60 x 110 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 23.6 x 43.3 inch
$53,314
Dame Carcasse - série femme de Carcassonne
Michel Philippon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$853
The cat residing within our dreams
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 30 x 30 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$602
Oiseau Libre
Adeline Weber Guibal
Sculpture - 29 x 17 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 6.7 x 6.7 inch
$3,183
Crocodile Facette Tag
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 70 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 27.6 inch
$26,032
Cow (Pink & Yellow) Triptych, 1966 (after Andy Warhol)
Andy Warhol
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
$625
WILD KONG Crystal clear full fractal
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$45,357
KONG BARIL TAG 45
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 45 x 25 x 16 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 9.8 x 6.3 inch
$14,664
WILD KONG TAG 52
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 52 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$22,622
Delirio Exótico #15 Collage. From 'Exotic Delirium' series
Paloma Castello
Photography - 119.9 x 82.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 32.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Delirio Exótico #8
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Delirio Exótico #3
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Delirio Exótico #2
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Delirio Exótico #1
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Temptations of Elena
Galia Chuntova
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,421
Pas sur la table Milo !
Loreto Verrocchia
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 inch
$625
Cupid and White Dove
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,819
Le Félin
Patricia Guinois Messica
Sculpture - 27 x 60 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 23.6 x 5.5 inch
$7,389
Jeux d'enfant le crane de cerf
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,183
Dardos yellow
Javier de la Rosa
Sculpture - 20 x 120 x 30 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 47.2 x 11.8 inch
$2,670
Rhododendron, SSM
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 22.7 x 22.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.9 x 8.9 x 0 inch
$796
Fauvette pitchou
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 11.5 x 8 x 4.5 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 3.1 x 1.8 inch
$3,979
Chat à la fênetre
Enric Cormenzana
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,705
Objekt #3. Pseudemys (3)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,842
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (5)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,228
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (2)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,228
Still life with bird, clock and books
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$550
517 Tiger grouper portrait
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$455
LA JOLIE DANSE DES PAPILLONS
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,131
Eléphants et acrobates
Moreno Pincas
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$8,526
Squat de pêche à Ducos.
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 105 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,989
The tiny Cathedral II
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 105 x 95 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 37.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,084
Untitled, (Diptych). From the series "Bordados Hojas Libros"
Ana Seggiaro
Painting - 9.9 x 14 x 0.3 cm Painting - 3.9 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
$600
Voices from Chekhov
Susan Rocklin
Painting - 95 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 37.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,861
El encanto de un foxterrier disecado
Iñigo Navarro
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
Carnaval des animaux
Patrick Moya
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,705
HEUREUSE COMME UN POISSON DANS L'EAU
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,017
Cuentos del norte
Miquel Wert
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$966
536 Dolphin and surface
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Print - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$455
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.