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Hommage à la Dame à l'hermine de Leonard de Vinci
Barzin Baharloee
Photography - 80 x 58 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 22.8 x 1.2 inch
$2,247
Couple de mésanges bleues
Jean Lemonnier
Sculpture - 16 x 11 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 4.3 x 3.5 inch
$2,247
The jewel of the river
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,746
Farewell to Fremantle
Margarita Voynova
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Horse (Paris, Hôtel de Ville)
Ivan Argote
Photography - 62 x 42 cm Photography - 24.4 x 16.5 inch
$5,955
Little World
Jia Yuan Hua
Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 52 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 20.5 x 0 inch
$2,247
Trunklestiltskins out and about
Gabrielle Pool
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$589
My Kid Just Ruined My François Pompon
Ziegler T
Sculpture - 18 x 32 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 12.6 x 4.3 inch
$674
Cat have a horn
Kraiwit Phothikul
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,247
The Third Eye of Ignorance
Stan Maksun
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$899
Hija de la luna
Marta Grassi
Fine Art Drawings - 110 x 75 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.3 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,011
Chat sur un fauteuil
René Gruau
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 49 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.3 inch
$843
Esta obra no tiene titulo es sólo el silencio de mi veneracion
Juan Carlos Alom
Print - 75.9 x 55.9 x 0 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0.01 inch
$1,500
Aurum Hortensis II
Angela Morris-Winmill
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,635
Sweet Dragon Gentil
Laurent Garcin
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 12 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 4.7 inch
$1,292
Carnaval des animaux
Patrick Moya
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,135
Sans titre (no comment)
Francky Boy
Sculpture - 31 x 56 x 6 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 22 x 2.4 inch
$2,247
Repos II - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 40 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,545
El pensamiento circular del pintor hormiga
Iván Araujo
Print - 36 x 38 cm Print - 14.2 x 15 inch
$618
Girl with a Cat
David Popiashvili
Painting - 43 x 30.5 x 4 cm Painting - 16.9 x 12 x 1.6 inch
$1,600
Chats errants de Netanya
Eveline Weil
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,629
1964 Le chat The cat
François Ozenda
Painting - 6.5 x 6.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 2.6 x 2.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,067
La Jeune Femme au Papillon
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 120 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,686
Äthiopische Gleichung
Swen Timm Angermann
Painting - 23 x 68.5 x 4.5 cm Painting - 9.1 x 27 x 1.8 inch
$1,011
Les chevaux de mes rêves galopent ... (métal)
Albena Vatcheva
Design - 76 x 76 x 0.16 cm Design - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$955
Spiritual Realm 3
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$1,000
The black bird flies out of your sing with the fruit
Wei-Hong Ma
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,910
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.