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Elephant's power
Christos Patargias
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,633
Contemplum #023
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 19 x 29 x 0.03 cm Photography - 7.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$736
La petite pastorale
Jean-Pierre Lorand
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Le charmeur d'oiseau
Jean-Pierre Lorand
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Cavalli e Rovine (Horses and Ruins)
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 49 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.3 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$5,658
Euh, comment je peux dire ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$453
La mouche bleue (The Blue Fly)
Matthew Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$849
Ironman Disney (Edition Rouge)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 22 x 12 x 3 cm Design - 8.7 x 4.7 x 1.2 inch
$339
A Parrot's Sour Treat: Lemons and Limes
Grace Diehl
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 1 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.4 inch
$1,026
Skybound: A Garden Avian
Grace Diehl
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
$1,026
Chirping Connections
Grace Diehl
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$1,845
An Ancient Egyptian Mystery
Grace Diehl
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,845
City in Space
Katarzyna Biskupska
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,697
Sans titre
François Nasica
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 14.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.1 inch
$758
White Horse: Illumination
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 71.1 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Let's go faster
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 40.9 x 58.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.2 x 1 inch
$2,000
Swan_01
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,390
Zebra in turquoise, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Gardani Art
Painting - 119.4 x 99.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 47 x 39 x 0.7 inch
$1,800
Abstract Panther Gold
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 140 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 55.1 inch
$5,602
Dissimulation VI
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,621
Bedouin Camel
Anthony Horth
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.2 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$1,100
Coral Sea Conservation Diving Adventures
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 94 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 37 x 0.1 inch
$980
L'arrivée de la pluie
Luciana Benitez Renteria
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,263 $1,697
Le P'tit Kong
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 30 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$13,580
Éléphant et son ballon purple
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 56 x 22 x 22 cm Sculpture - 22 x 8.7 x 8.7 inch
$9,619
From the collection : Around about n°1220
Hamid Reza Fotouhi
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
$1,697
Éléphant de guerre, 1866
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 50 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,471
Couple de léopards jouant
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 98 x 68 x 66 cm Sculpture - 38.6 x 26.8 x 26 inch
$67,898
Les Salins aux flamands
Juan Benito
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$781
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.