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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Le papillon aquatique
Elzbieta Radziwill
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€4,500
Composition de 10 visages perdus
François Boucheix
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 37 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 14.6 x 0.2 inch
€950
Bonheur à la plage n°2 - série portrait infraréaliste - IA
Steve Awhtz
Print - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€290
Lioness
Lenci Marino
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 36 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 14.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
La mer 22
Richard Pommier
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inch
€200
Sans titre
Babahoum
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 37.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14.8 x 0.1 inch
€300
DIP (white series)
Federico Alibrio
Sculpture - 25 x 33 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 13 x 3.9 inch
€200
Les souris
Dominique Albertelli
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1 inch
€5,800
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
€400
Colorful Flying Heart
Marcus Botbol
Painting - 100 x 100 x 10 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 3.9 inch
€8,067
Sans titre
Serigne Ibrahima Dièye
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
€1,700
Troglodytes Mignons
Judith Devaux
Sculpture - 11.5 x 29 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 11.4 x 4.3 inch
€2,700
Vautour pape
Ray Lambert
Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€400
Deux corbeaux
Emma Plesse
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€400
Jocker
Vladimir Nemukhin
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€5,000
Cheval soleil - Sculpture équestre ferronnerie sur peuplier
Pierre Conte
Sculpture - 23 x 43 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 16.9 x 4.3 inch
€225
Les poissons
Sacha Haillote
Photography - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,650
Bucolic Scene
Oskar Kokoschka
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 22.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 8.9 x 0.1 inch
€13,000
Jour de fête
Zoé Coulon alias Faune Studio
Print - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€100
Sardina (Limited Edition of 8)
Miquel Aparici
Photography - 45 x 150 x 2 cm Photography - 17.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€4,800
Tinta
Patopalomo
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 33 x 0.34 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 13 x 0.1 inch
€460
Horses
Germaine Nordmann
Fine Art Drawings - 15.3 x 24.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6 x 9.6 x 0 inch
€380
1986 Rhinocéros
Christophe Curien
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 inch
€995
The Competition
Angelo Griscelli
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 4.5 x 0.1 inch
€380
The Tiger
Maria Ginzburg
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€350
Promenade Matinale
Valérie Zimmermann (Anna Mya Zimmer)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,390
Console Clairière
Christian Couaillier
Design - 90 x 64 x 28 cm Design - 35.4 x 25.2 x 11 inch
€14,000
Sergei Sviatchenko - Capacity For Conjuring Illusion 8
Sergei Sviatchenko
Photography - 36 x 26 cm Photography - 14.2 x 10.2 inch
€3,000
Galloping Horses
Giuseppe Cominetti
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 48.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 19.1 x 0 inch
€7,500
Sketch for the Parliament Hall 'Thanatos and the Enigma'
Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€7,500
Fragment #4
Kristoffer Axén
Photography - 70 x 93 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 36.6 x 0 inch
€2,606
California Dreaming 8/2AP
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
Chevaux rouge et blanc
Serge Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 38 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 15 inch
€150
Yin Yang
Vitalia Stupak
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€229
Happy Toys
Elene Melikidze
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€400
Conigli arcobaleno
Matilde Berretta
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€400
-You silly, who are you? Why did you come here? -my name is a Sea!
Ketevan Varshanidze
Painting - 48 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Audrey et Eléphants
Dominique Mulhem
Photography - 40 x 32 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
€4,500
Brainpower II, III and I. Triptych
Juan Lamarca
Photography - 41.9 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.5 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€3,018