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Dragonfly - Flowers - Garden
Trayko Popov
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$773
Girafe Zanzibar
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 56 x 57 x 13 cm Sculpture - 22 x 22.4 x 5.1 inch
$13,641
Djenné
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 45 x 32.5 x 41 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 12.8 x 16.1 inch
$10,231
The Horse and the night
Zakaria Al Omar
Print - 70 x 140 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 55.1 x 0.1 inch
$660
Fantasia à Gardaïa
Georges Corominas
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,229
Esmeralda Danse avec les Loups
Claudine Loquen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$4,092
Équilibre d'éléphants
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 53 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$4,888
The fiery thoughts of a dragon
Nike Kama
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,478
The fish flower. The sun
Nike Kama
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,478
Les amoureux (tortues)
Philippe Dias
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,501
Brothers
Tsukasa Tamai
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 34.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 13.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,478
La vie en rose dans la forêt
Philippe Berry
Print - 68 x 44 x 0.1 cm Print - 26.8 x 17.3 x 0 inch
$171
Sunshine on Leaves
Chang Im Choi
Painting - 53 x 40.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20.9 x 16.1 x 0.7 inch
$1,762
A reminder of the greatness of the nation.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 69.9 x 100.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 27.5 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,200
Protection des chevaux
Caroline Crozat
Painting - 130 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$2,728
Summer Mood I-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 35.5 x 35 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14 x 13.8 x 8.7 inch
$523
Le grand échange
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 46 x 33 x 1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$2,615
Bestiole incertaine
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 33 x 41 x 1 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,501
Shark Hammer
Volodymyr Mykytenko
Sculpture - 63 x 67 x 28 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 26.4 x 11 inch
$5,400
Octopus Sculpture
Volodymyr Mykytenko
Sculpture - 23 x 42 x 41 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 16.5 x 16.1 inch
$6,600
Impression #3
Karine Nicolleau
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$284
Attelage à Chantilly
Gérard Pamboujian
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$3,410
Jewel Tree, Bambi
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 60.6 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 23.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,297
Pink Crazy Rabbit
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 76.5 x 63 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.1 x 24.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,956
Drôles d'oiseaux !
Sabine Louriac
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$614
Light in the Forest, Rabbit
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 60 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,728
Dreaming, Butterfly
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 60.6 x 50 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.9 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,069
Dreaming, Jewel, Butterflies
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 60.6 x 50 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.9 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,444
Le bouquet d'éléphants
Christophe Ronel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,844
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.