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Vol de nuit
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 27 x 37 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 14.6 x 5.5 inch
$8,880
Victoire de Punta Arenas
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 64 x 39 x 30 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 15.4 x 11.8 inch
$17,760
Grands voyageurs
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 60 x 50 x 35 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 19.7 x 13.8 inch
$19,979
Mura Mura, le temps du rêve
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 19 x 58.5 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 23 x 3.9 inch
$11,100
Tango
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 41.5 x 33.5 x 14 cm Sculpture - 16.3 x 13.2 x 5.5 inch
$9,990
Five cakes and two fish
Zhao De-Wei
Painting - 150 x 240 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 94.5 x 1.6 inch
$36,407
Les poumons de la Terre
Amor de Agua
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,221
Lioness and the Scorpion
Leticia de Prado
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,880
Architecture et goélands
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.4 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$721
Head Study
Diana Torje
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
$388
Untitled 18 (NY)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 112 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,000
Untitled 14 (NY)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 112 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,000
Cachalots (2)
Franck Seguin
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$4,995
Portfolio 12th Anniversary of Galeria Joan Prats
Perejaume
Print - 36 x 56 cm Print - 14.2 x 22 inch
$499
Dirty Harry on the Buffalo Trail (I know what you're thinking... punk)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 76 x 61 cm Photography - 29.9 x 24 inch
$3,500
Black cat in the City
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$10,756
Cow drinks water
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$11,100
Dark cow by the road
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,100
Blue-bearded helmet crest
Shawn Smith
Sculpture - 39 x 28 x 41 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 11 x 16.1 inch
$8,991
Crépuscule des Loups
Christine Pultz
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,660
Source de Lumière
Christine Pultz
Painting - 81 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$8,880
Concerto di Fenicotteri
Christine Pultz
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,660
Landende uil No.6
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 42 x 46 x 22 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 18.1 x 8.7 inch
$11,377
Araignée de mer (Maja squinado)
Teuthis
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,443
2020 n°5/8
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 38 x 90 x 34 cm Sculpture - 15 x 35.4 x 13.4 inch
$27,749
Flamant rose
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 80 x 103.6 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 40.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,221
A Dog on the Beach
Ventzislav Dikov
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,886
Puma allongé EA IV/IV
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 80 x 75 x 75 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.5 x 29.5 inch
$31,079
Hole's Origin
Parenteau-Denoel & Mofart'z
Painting - 29 x 42 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$499
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
$100
Un ours plutôt bien léché
Peggy Cardoso
Painting - 22 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$411
Grâce africaine
Lee Berthille
Sculpture - 190.5 x 83.5 x 38 cm Sculpture - 75 x 32.9 x 15 inch
$6,105
Delirio Exótico #16
Paloma Castello
Photography - 119.9 x 82.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 32.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
118 Dragon of the past
Anita Agnieszka Edvinsson
Painting - 131 x 96 x 3 cm Painting - 51.6 x 37.8 x 1.2 inch
$26,084
Canned Koi Consumption/The Shopping Queen
Andrea Berthel
Print - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$766
Vermilingua kiss
Olga Oreshnikov
Painting - 90.2 x 90.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 35.5 x 35.5 x 1.5 inch
$4,862
Greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) I
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$400
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.