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Blossom and bird song
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€290
Boarding Masks
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€8,400
1 frozen sea bass.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 100.8 x 219.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39.7 x 86.5 x 2 inch
€11,614
Ça me rend chevre
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Rabbits Get Fat in Autumn
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
€5,500
The Scenery of Coconut Grove
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 136 x 68 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 26.8 x 0 inch
€5,500
Dreams of Birds and Flowers
Janet Gough
Painting - 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
€2,587
Dance of the Butterflies
Janet Gough
Painting - 69 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 27.2 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,895
Little Bird and Orange
Janet Gough
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€2,279
From Wastes of Scrub and Nothing Came
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2.4 inch
€2,217
Lost while hatching #4
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen
Painting - 49 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,503
Chef and fish
Shine Huang
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€2,323
When we will get wild?
Skaiste Semenike
Painting - 93 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,504
When we will get wild?
Skaiste Semenike
Painting - 93 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,490
Disparitions/ Extinctions #1
Hélène Duclos
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
€3,000
Fantasy Jeju Island, Garden
Shin Seung-Hun
Painting - 112 x 145.5 x 5 cm Painting - 44.1 x 57.3 x 2 inch
€9,000
Fantasy Jeju Island, Happiness Journey
Shin Seung-Hun
Painting - 163 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 64.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€10,000
Savana
Catherine de Kerhor
Sculpture - 167 x 120 x 70 cm Sculpture - 65.7 x 47.2 x 27.6 inch
€61,400
Le Gorille Penseur
Hadrien David
Sculpture - 44 x 29 x 30 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 11.4 x 11.8 inch
€7,800
The two starlings
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€493
L'étang ensoleillé
Diana Malivani
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€13,500
Declaring Independence
Rod Cusic
Painting - 124.5 x 154.9 x 7.6 cm Painting - 49 x 61 x 3 inch
€3,388
Sans titre (DED363323)
Cyril Réguerre
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 27 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
€90
La palombe qui vole
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 inch
€90
Au-dessus d'un champ fleuri
Diana Malivani
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€13,500
Charm
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 109 x 158 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 42.9 x 62.2 x 0.8 inch
€9,000
Picasso et Son Chien Perro
Caroline St-Pierre
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€3,320
THE UNITED PANDASAN : SPECTRAL SYMMETRY BLACK & ORANGE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 55 x 45 x 45 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 17.7 x 17.7 inch
€12,000
L'Éléphant et la Souris
Richard Boigeol
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
€15,000
Petite fille au chien
Eugène Bégarat
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
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.