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Alexandre Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,254
Petit poisson plumé
Agathe David
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 33 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$516
Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Ilia Boyarov
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 35 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 inch
$157
La Galopée Musicale
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,983
UrbanCat Porcelain edition
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 21 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,693
Painting in frame "Seven elephants of happiness/Still life with elephants" Natalie Shiporina
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$3,254
Kiss and autumn leaves
Akio Harada
Painting - 53.3 x 53.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 21 x 21 x 2 inch
$2,693
Profitable Freude
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
Against All Odds (Royal Lifestyle)
James Ogamba Tochukwu
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,500
Horse in the shade of trees
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 27 x 31 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 12.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,609
Wings of Happiness
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 127 x 177.8 x 0.25 cm Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 inch
$1,795
Moon Spirit
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 152.4 x 121.92 x 0.25 cm Photography - 60 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$1,627
An Autumn Tale
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 127 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 50 x 0.1 inch
$1,234
Time to Fly
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 127 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,290
Enjoy the sunshine
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,066
Precious Moment
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 101.6 x 81.28 x 0.25 cm Photography - 40 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$954
A Hard-Working Great Egret
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$785
Wings of the Sky
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 60.96 x 76.2 x 0.25 cm Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$673
This Land is Your Land
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 58.42 x 78.74 x 0.25 cm Photography - 23 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$673
Peace, Love, and Joy
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 60.96 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$785
When the Moon Rises
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 76.2 x 60.96 x 0.25 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$673
Moon song
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 152.4 x 121.92 x 0.25 cm Photography - 60 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$1,571
The cat with the pearl earring
Eva Goubin
Painting - 20.32 x 20.32 x 3 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 1.2 inch
$898
Marbled majestic horse
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 17 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 6.7 x 3.9 inch
$249
Girl and horse
Jose Manuel Merello
Fine Art Drawings - 21.5 x 13.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 5.3 x 0 inch
$561
Girl with animals
Jose Manuel Merello
Fine Art Drawings - 21.5 x 13.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.5 x 5.3 x 0 inch
$561
Some Rise...Some Bury Their Heads
Carlos Quinto Kemm
Print - 70 x 79 cm Print - 27.6 x 31.1 inch
$900
Couple and the horse
Theo Mackaay
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$6,675
Girl from Gombe
Abifola Olorunlana
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,800
Flowers and hummingbirds
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 80 x 61 x 3.6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 24 x 1.4 inch
$655
El Universo - The Universe
Peperina Magenta
Print - 99.1 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Print - 39 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$5,200
No such border
Jessica Houston
Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,132
L'armée des 12 chats
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 45 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$539
L'ours Pompon - Edition Yves Klein
François Pompon et Yves Klein
Sculpture - 27 x 49 x 19 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 19.3 x 7.5 inch
$10,041
Piaf violet mat, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$325
Crane
Russell Edward Vanecek
Painting - 91.44 x 71.12 x 3.81 cm Painting - 36 x 28 x 1.5 inch
$4,033
Blue Heron
Russell Edward Vanecek
Painting - 35.56 x 27.94 x 1.27 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.5 inch
$2,424
Diverse Flock
Russell Edward Vanecek
Painting - 91.4 x 60.96 x 3.81 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$2,577
Arbre à oiseaux - série Paysage
Danielle Lamaison
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$191
Elephant crybaby
Karl de la Diushes
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,524
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.