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Sculpture tête cheval en métal recyclé 2
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 82 x 27 x 80 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 10.6 x 31.5 inch
$1,302
Grande tête de cheval
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 47 x 29 x 28 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 11.4 x 11 inch
$6,514
Come play with me
Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie
Sculpture - 20 x 14.5 x 7 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 5.7 x 2.8 inch
$728
L'éveil du serpent à plumes
Timothy Archer
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$4,410
Infinity Of Love
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 68 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 26.8 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Edition Le Regard du Tigre 30
Miguel Guía
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$430
Two bears entwined
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 9.5 x 9.5 x 9 cm Sculpture - 3.7 x 3.7 x 3.5 inch
$1,583
The Midnight Flight
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$565
Colombe sur Lit de Paille (Dove on a Straw Bed) (variant)
Pablo Picasso
Print - 31.8 x 38.1 x 3.8 cm Print - 12.5 x 15 x 1.5 inch
$18,000
Games People Play
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,827
Just the two of us
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$2,827
Les oiseaux dans la neige
Christian Silvain
Painting - 80 x 70 x 8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 3.1 inch
$11,309
Ours debout royal green
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 70 x 45 x 28 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 17.7 x 11 inch
$19,112
Fashion Monkey Dark blue
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 30 x 17 x 14 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 6.7 x 5.5 inch
$848
Fashion Monkey Batman
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 30 x 17 x 14 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 6.7 x 5.5 inch
$848
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,470
Mara en de Ara
Dirk De Keyzer
Sculpture - 114 x 32 x 26 cm Sculpture - 44.9 x 12.6 x 10.2 inch
$19,791
Bar à Chats
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$995
Untucked
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 71.1 x 50.5 x 0.5 cm Photography - 28 x 19.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,200
Raw Orange, Epreuve d'artiste
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,120
Metaphysical landscape with Cecile and Calypso observing the sunset of capitalism
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 45.7 x 71.1 x 0.6 cm Painting - 18 x 28 x 0.25 inch
$800
Le Mont Saint-Michel
Raluca Vulcan
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,958
Collection Papillon n°1261
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
Paris, Place Vendôme Ritz
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$170
Beauty and the Beast, Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
$4,015
Teddy Love Bleu Cote d'Azur
Nicolas Krauss
Sculpture - 23 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,262
Horses on the beach
Elena Done
Painting - 130 x 97 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.6 inch
$3,750
Panda Spirit (Orange Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 12 x 12 x 10 cm Design - 4.7 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$338
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.