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.
Richard Orlinski
Hippo spirit (Water green edition), 2022 4.3 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch Design
$518
Babette Degraeve
Bronzen Knuffel VI (Stuffed animal VI), 2020 13 x 7.9 x 4.7 inch Sculpture
$1,234
Richard Orlinski
Crocodile crystal clear bleu, 2022 9.8 x 27.6 x 10.6 inch Sculpture
$19,701
Pablo Picasso
Chat saisissant un oiseau, 1939 14.2 x 18.9 x 0 inch Print
$1,244
Mariah Birsak
House of the Cheetah ll painting, 2022 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch Painting
$1,597 $1,437
Ti'Ou
Tableau 3D hippocampe, 2022 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch Design
$1,027
Yohan Storti
Quelque part quelqu’un, 2022 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch Painting
$1,866
Philippe Geluck
Le mini Chat au journal, 2022 8.3 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch Sculpture
$1,192
Hans Mendler
Berger, agneau, 2021 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch Sculpture
$1,866
Manuel Santelices
Georgia Sitwell photographed by Cecil Beaton., 2022 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch Painting
$1,200
G.Rodo Boulanger
Voyage Imaginaire I (Elephant), 1988 29.1 x 29.1 inch Print
$830
Hyo-Sik Park
Hyosik park, 2022 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch Painting
$933
Jo Di Bona
Lion, 2022 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch Painting
$3,629
Ziegler T
La Couleur De Son Maître (Blue), 2022 22 x 29.9 inch Print
$311
Olga Belikova
The Power, 2021 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,476
David Ferreira
Flamingo Toto, 2022 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch Painting
$3,422
Karlexander
Jelly-stic fish, 2022 35.4 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch Photography
$1,244
Xenz
Paradise, 2022 32.3 x 26.8 inch Print
$1,685
Tekla Aleksieva
The Loch Ness Monster – cover illustration of a book from the ECO series, 1987 9.8 x 15 x 0.1 inch Painting
$964
Sumit Mehndiratta
Butterfly Park 4, 2022 25 x 25 x 2 inch Sculpture
$1,866
Georges Braque
L'Iris, 1963 28.7 x 18.5 inch Print
$6,740
Viktor Zuk
Yellow dragon, 2022 7.5 x 13.4 x 2.8 inch Sculpture
$363
Ardif
Artist´s Hand Mechanatomy (lava), 2022 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch Print
$819
Lilia Mazurkevich
...It's Fine, 2022 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch Print
$892
Didier Becquart
Papillon, 2016 24.8 x 41.7 x 32.3 inch Sculpture
$13,998
Gordon Carmichael
Relics from the Anthropocene, 2022 21.7 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch Painting
$1,400
Hassan El Glaoui
Fantasia Tbourida cavalier Ref BDNW10778, 1990 8.3 x 11.4 inch Fine Art Drawings
$1,555
Brigitte Cailleau
La révolution des tournesols, 2022 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,659
Charlotte Abecassis
Hérons, 2022 23.6 x 16.5 inch Painting
$1,555
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Rhino flash, 2022 12.6 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch Sculpture
$1,348
Chanoir
Cha Angel Néon Cosmique, 2021 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch Painting
$3,525
Chanoir
Cha Basketteur, 2021 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch Sculpture
$4,821
Julien Soone
The whale, 2022 31.5 x 23.6 inch Painting
$2,592
Isabelle Carabantes
Eléphant (V), 2021 10.2 x 7.3 x 16.5 inch Sculpture
$4,355
Barbara Fuchs
Alm Abtrieb, 2020 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch Painting
$1,192
Shell
Nguni as Lobola, 2022 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch Painting
$985
Sandrine Piani
With my bird, 2021 8.3 x 7.5 x 7.1 inch Sculpture
$1,296
Lorenzo Bruschini
Elogio della zoé, 2021 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch Painting
$1,866
Sreya Gupta
Garden of Memories, 2021 24 x 30 inch Painting
$705
Mosko
Le tigre au regard perçant, 2022 19.7 x 19.7 inch Painting
$1,348
Sylvie Debray Artiste Bxl
La course aux escargots, 2022 8.3 x 5.1 x 12.6 inch Sculpture
$3,100
Partho Dutta
Joyous horses, 2007 20 x 42 inch Painting
$1,503
Helle Rask Crawford
Newborn Fowl, 2022 3.5 x 6.3 x 3.9 inch Sculpture
$1,016
Irena Tone
Sweet dreams..., 2020 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,476
Jean-Claude Gaillard
Cochon Punk (Série Copains comme cochons), 2019 2 x 3.1 x 2 inch Sculpture
$467
Charbey
Street composition aléatoire série Pop art, 2021 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,141
Caroline Huet
Dicrurus paradiseus, 2022 31.9 x 23.6 x 1 inch Painting
$1,452
Alice de Miramon
Motherhood, 2019 8.7 x 6.7 inch Painting
$518
Marie-Lys Legris-Médard
Calao buceros solo, 2022 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch Painting
$1,255
Sumit Mehndiratta
A Brand New Day, 2021 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch Photography
$1,089
K-Yo
Méduses I, 2021 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch Fine Art Drawings
$954
Caroline Godefroy
Ré Star 1, 2022 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,555
Nicolas Monjo
Trafic, 2022 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch Painting
$2,177
Primal
Clairons de nuit, 2021 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch Painting
$1,244
Laurence Leccia
Les sardines, 2019 47.2 x 25.2 x 1.6 inch Painting
$1,866
Tchoul
La corrida, 2021 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,141
Noël Granger
L'oiseau d'or, 2022 12.2 x 9.1 inch Fine Art Drawings
$93
Henry Escobar
Les chevaux, 2022 31.9 x 45.7 x 1 inch Painting
$2,592
Philippe Geluck
Golf - Pétrole, 2022 27.6 x 36.4 inch Print
$2,022
Helen She
Butterfly Matrix, 2022 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch Painting
$1,555
Hassan El Glaoui
Fantasia Tbourida cavalier Ref BDNW10780, 1990 8.3 x 11.4 inch Painting
$2,592
Teona Yamanidze
Natural Predators in Captivity, 2021 7.9 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch Painting
$830
Albena Vatcheva
Les chevaux de mes rêves galopent ... (métal), 2022 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch Print
$1,234
Tanya Veselova
The contact, 2022 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch Painting
$1,244
Menashe Kadishman
Sans nom, 2020 40.2 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch Painting
$3,836
Paufert Patrick
Sans Titre 011, 2013 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch Painting
$3,629
Claude Viallat
Aubais, 2019 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch Print
$363
Christopher Rainham
Who will be Silent in a Moon or Two, 2022 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch Painting
$738
Maurice Falise
Coq, 2000 19.1 x 19.1 x 0.4 inch Photography
$1,659
Le Hai Linh
The fish 1, 2006 37 x 29.1 x 0.4 inch Painting
$2,276
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Ultimate Freedom - Skate, 2022 31.9 x 8.3 x 1.6 inch Painting
$912
Monique Correy
Bondi, 2022 11.8 x 14.2 x 1.2 inch Painting
$830
Jean-Louis Manuel
La maman des poissons en forêt, 2022 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch Painting
$1,555
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