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Guspirus en las flores
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,120
The knight and the queen
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$600
Hummingbirds in flight
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 100.1 x 69.9 x 3.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.5 x 1.4 inch
$920
Lion #21 - Series big cat
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 99.1 x 17.8 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 7 inch
$1,350
Paris, Triomphe du vivant
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$204
In welcher Dimension?
Salvatore La Cola
Painting - 21 x 14.8 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,577
Was mach ich mit dem Hase?
Salvatore La Cola
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,914
Dessin / Sans titre
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
$905
naughty beagle dog
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 72 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Cebra grande verde
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,584
Mujer con perro
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 90 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,471
Les oiseaux du Brésil
Clara Delaporte
Photography - 30 x 20 x 2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$339
Ranas enamoradas
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Jirafa de colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 72 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Mariquitas de colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Beagle con gafas
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$905
Elefante de colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 54 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,132
Tortugas de colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$905
Le cygne d'Antalya
Bruno Feitussi
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,584
Celui qui sait marcher sur la terre
Mélissa Galin
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,697
Cebra De Colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$905
My Heart in Two States
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$798
Who will be Silent in a Moon or Two
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$798
Oeuvre N°1202
Peter Nabarlambarl
Painting - 76 x 58 x 0.4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,825
Meet Your God
Sergio Barletta
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 48 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 18.9 x 0 inch
$566
Another Direction
Siranush Vardanyan
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,697
Fragment de gorille
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 48 x 35 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 13.8 x 7.9 inch
$12,448
My Dog Has Eyes
Louis La Rooy
Sculpture - 109.2 x 43.2 x 15.2 cm Sculpture - 43 x 17 x 6 inch
$7,000
Manchots #2/8
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 34 x 36 x 30 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 14.2 x 11.8 inch
$13,014
Orang-Outan
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 42 x 35 x 29 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 13.8 x 11.4 inch
$18,106
The Hybrid Snake
Yannick Bouillault
Sculpture - 62 x 42 x 26 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 16.5 x 10.2 inch
$1,245
Há lados VIII (1)
Gersony Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,358
La fleur aux dents
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,415
Invitation au voyage
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,103
Les dames d'Avallon
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,103
Le lapin agile
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$594
La fiancée du bout du monde
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 93 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 36.6 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,697
Pluie de roses
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,415
Printemps précoce
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,415
Corset, Portrait of an Equestrienne
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 45.7 x 34.8 x 0.5 cm Photography - 18 x 13.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,600
L'ours joyeux galactique
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 50 x 35 x 25 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 13.8 x 9.8 inch
$3,282
Nounours Ballons Coeurs
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,120
Que reste-t-il ? I/IV
Sophie Larroche
Sculpture - 26 x 15 x 12 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 5.9 x 4.7 inch
$2,942
Afternoon swim
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 51 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,392
Versión libre “La Paloma” de Picasso
O'Farrell
Painting - 130 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,245
Panthère couchée sur la branche
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 16 x 24 x 8 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 9.4 x 3.1 inch
$4,300
Bubbles in the air
Jorge Calero
Painting - 304.8 x 203.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 inch
$1,010
Bocaux anatomiques n°31
Stéphane Belzère
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,337
Gorilla business silence
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 130 x 75 x 115 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 29.5 x 45.3 inch
$12,448
Fish concert at theater of the sea
Mike Jacobs
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 1 inch
$1,109
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.