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Yoda Kaléidoscope
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 26 x 19.5 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.7 x 2.2 inch
$909
Snail / l'escargot
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 44 x 14 x 19 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 5.5 x 7.5 inch
$3,638
I will not cry anymore
Akio Harada
Painting - 40 x 40 x 5.1 cm Painting - 15.75 x 15.75 x 2 inch
$1,819
Feeding The Birds
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$477
Eléphants en équilibre h cm 200
Philippe Berry
Sculpture - 200 x 50 x 50 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 19.7 x 19.7 inch
$31,830
Street rat in love (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$56
My parrot is a rapper
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,615
Movingwith mirror
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 50.8 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Butterfly Paratrooper 3
Gabrielle Nisenboim
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,933
My monkey is a rapper
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 24 x 20 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 7.9 x 6.3 inch
$2,615
Singe bleu au cigare
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 18 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 7.1 inch
$682
Spring Sprouts on Death
Abhishek Kumar
Sculpture - 12.7 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Sculpture - 5 x 4.5 x 2 inch
$2,010
You Can't Go Home Again 2
Abhishek Kumar
Painting - 76.2 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 48 x 2 inch
$2,000
Manifestation: Lemon Boy
Eury Kim
Painting - 90.9 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,274
Sapeur Cerf
Boureima Ouedraogo
Sculpture - 35 x 36.5 x 16 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 14.4 x 6.3 inch
$966
Poule Matoutou
César Baldaccini
Sculpture - 36 x 34 x 42 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 13.4 x 16.5 inch
$73,890
Alucinación de Hitchcock
José Antonio Fondevila
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.8 inch
$682
Caresses II
Ismaël Kachtihi del Moral
Painting - 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$512
Miniatuur Struisvogel
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 53 x 47 x 4 cm Painting - 20.9 x 18.5 x 1.6 inch
$739
Toro study
Marc Prat
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 120 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$887
Les vaches
Jean Dubuffet
Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 32 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.6 x 12.6 inch
$51,155
Lucien Teddy Bear No23
Séverine Bugna
Sculpture - 34 x 28 x 22 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 11 x 8.7 inch
$1,080
Lucien Teddy Bear No22
Séverine Bugna
Sculpture - 34 x 28 x 22 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 11 x 8.7 inch
$1,080
El bosque de los Guspirus
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$1,535
Rosine
César Baldaccini
Sculpture - 66 x 85 x 41 cm Sculpture - 26 x 33.5 x 16.1 inch
$102,309 $92,078
Dance of light and shadow
Svetlana Martin
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.7 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.3 inch
$784
Apology Socrates
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 104.9 x 99.8 x 4.6 cm Painting - 41.3 x 39.3 x 1.8 inch
$4,000
Guspirus en las flores
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,125
The knight and the queen
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$600
Hummingbirds in flight
Irini Karpikioti
Painting - 100.1 x 69.9 x 3.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.5 x 1.4 inch
$920
Lion #21 - Series big cat
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 99.1 x 99.1 x 17.8 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 7 inch
$1,350
Paris, Triomphe du vivant
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$205
In welcher Dimension?
Salvatore La Cola
Painting - 21 x 14.8 x 1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,585
Was mach ich mit dem Hase?
Salvatore La Cola
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,922
Dessin / Sans titre
Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
$909
naughty beagle dog
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 72 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Cebra grande verde
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,591
Mujer con perro
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 90 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,478
Les oiseaux du Brésil
Clara Delaporte
Photography - 30 x 20 x 2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$341
Ranas enamoradas
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Jirafa de colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 72 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Mariquitas de colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
Beagle con gafas
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$909
Elefante de colores
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 54 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
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.