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Le coq 5
Changzheng Zhu
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 38 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$103
Le chat rouge - Reproduction digigraphie
Angélo Pierlo
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$170
It's a dog life ... !
Papa Mesk
Sculpture - 25 x 43 x 15 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 16.9 x 5.9 inch
$1,809
That Pink Moment
Ralph Allen Massey
Painting - 55.2 x 57.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 21.75 x 22.5 x 1.5 inch
$2,300
Untitled (Everydays - Everynights)
Smole
Painting - 115.6 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.5 x 32 x 1 inch
$3,750
Le Grand Duc à L’Opéra
Dan Jacobson
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,827
La Renaissance (poudre de diamant)
Jonas Leriche
Photography - 127 x 87 x 2 cm Photography - 50 x 34.3 x 0.8 inch
$18,094
Blue Bunny
Lisa Yuskavage
Fine Art Drawings - 49.5 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 19.5 inch
$84,817
Child with sloth, The Amazon Forest, Brazil
Araquém Alcântara
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,827
The Hall of Lost Steps 1
Izabela Apananska
Print - 29 x 20 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.4 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$509
Sleeping Cat
Giselle Halff
Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 31 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.6 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
$283
Jack rabbit colordrop
Tine Wermuth
Painting - 120 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,431
Birds in Morocco
Helen Vogt
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 14 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.5 x 0 inch
$430
Hija de la luz del Palacio
Mayte Solé Murillo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$452
With a dove in his head
Marta & Slava
Sculpture - 87 x 25 x 19 cm Sculpture - 34.3 x 9.8 x 7.5 inch
$7,916
Lion d'Afrique
Gilbert Sacchetti
Sculpture - 35 x 68 x 40 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 26.8 x 15.7 inch
$22,618
Manga - Rouge/Dog
Moncler Moncler
Sculpture - 32 x 30 x 16 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 11.8 x 6.3 inch
$2,917
Chevaux rouge et blanc
Serge Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 38 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 15 inch
$170
Emigration for love
Ekaterina Shitova
Painting - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$339
Las partes del mundo II
Andres Nagel Tejada
Print - 38.1 x 27.9 x 0 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0.01 inch
$230
Early Stages of the game
Nicky Nodjoumi
Painting - 182.9 x 134.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 72 x 53 x 2 inch
$49,759
Comtesse PiouPiou
Valentine Burlan
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$89
Super lucky Neonka, Happy version
Lalasaïdko
Print - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$441
Le passeur et l'oiseau
Arnaud Gautron
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$565
We are not followers
Philippe Liveneau LENY
Print - 150 x 100 x 7 cm Print - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2.8 inch
$2,827
We are not followers
Philippe Liveneau LENY
Painting - 150 x 100 x 7 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2.8 inch
$2,827
Chouette
Muriel Salvan
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$317
Swan Lake
Yekaterina Ivanovna Medvedeva
Painting - 128 x 156.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 50.4 x 61.6 x 0.1 inch
$6,446
Black bird
Leona Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$565
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.