Dans la rosée du matin
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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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.
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A quand la liberté
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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Streetolé
Marc Felten
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 140 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
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Composition pour les JO
Carybé (Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó)
Print - 90 x 63 cm Print - 35.4 x 24.8 inch
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Retour du bois d'amour
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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Die gemsen / Les chamoix
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 75 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 29.5 inch
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Achtung! / Attention!
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 90 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$771
Der Toro / Le Toro
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 90 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$771
Ein Spaziergang im Winter / Une promenade en hiver
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
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Der Schauspieler / L'acteur
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$771
Coffee Ritual
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 85 x 70 x 1.8 cm Painting - 33.5 x 27.6 x 0.7 inch
$1,780
La femme qui court avec les loup
Mina Mond
Painting - 60 x 36 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 14.2 x 1 inch
$1,186
Vive les fleurs et les lapins jaunes
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 32 x 8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
$415
Bo and his friend
Giacomo Pirozzi
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$534
Shadows of the Ancestors
Igor Galan
Painting - 150 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$18,981
How are you, Franklin
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 75 x 105 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
$10,084
Flight of the Raven
Liubou Sas
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,745 $4,034
Butterfly flight
Liubou Sas
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,745 $4,034
Manège fantasmagorique
Jean-Jacques Kugel
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
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Lièvre à la déesse
Véronique Dominici
Sculpture - 40 x 39 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.4 x 7.9 inch
$1,424
Le loup DIEU THOT GOD The wolf
Jean-Pierre Malaussena
Fine Art Drawings - 53.5 x 28.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.1 x 11.2 inch
$1,483
Vive les fleurs les chats qui surfent
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 17 x 12 x 5 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 4.7 x 2 inch
$297
Woman tending to her sheep in a rustic stable setting
Franck Brissot
Painting - 58 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 22.8 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$5,200
Sapphire and Garnet
Patricia A Griffin
Painting - 182.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 72 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$20,700
Jelly-stic fish
Karl N’da Adopo
Photography - 90 x 110 x 3 cm Photography - 35.4 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,424
Flying Dumbo blue 1/8
SA Candela
Sculpture - 100 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$7,118
Élégante au perroquet - ref BDNW11480
Janie Michels
Painting - 54 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 21.3 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,907
Unity Blooming Bear
Juliana Berdugo
Sculpture - 53 x 33 x 23 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 13 x 9.1 inch
$7,355
Aigle sur globe
Brigitte Téman
Sculpture - 73 x 46 x 52 cm Sculpture - 28.7 x 18.1 x 20.5 inch
$27,048
Dog with a long nose
David Surman
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,203
L'oiseau guide les chameaux
Philippe Jacq
Painting - 50 x 65 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 2 inch
$2,966
Quinze
Emeline Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$4,152
La distancia que ens uneix
Març Rabal
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,258
Chevaux (études)
Antoine De La Boulaye
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 35.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 14 inch
$2,373
A Falcaroo Named Knievel
Brett Crawford
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2.54 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 inch
$75,000
Convergence animalière
Jean-Paul Jacquet
Sculpture - 40 x 70 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 27.6 x 5.9 inch
$1,661
Sans titre
Pinchas (Maryan) Burstein
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$1,780
Ayanfe Omo Oba
Wale Ajayi
Fine Art Drawings - 119.9 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$3,550
