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Nature Lover
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 119 x 200 x 12 cm Sculpture - 46.9 x 78.7 x 4.7 inch
$17,079
Chien béat sur nickel 59
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 59 x 55 x 21 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 21.7 x 8.3 inch
$9,377
La robe bleue d'après "Sainte Anne, la vierge et l'enfant Jésus " de Léonard de Vinci
Catherine Clare
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,791
Pastorale africaine - Complicité, frères et soeurs
Catherine Clare
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,791 $2,512
Vegas PopArt Red Sup
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 45 x 39 x 45 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15.4 x 17.7 inch
$893 $804
Raw Jaune Epreuve d'artiste
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,105
Raw Vert Epreuve d'artiste
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,105
Raw Violet Epreuve d'artiste
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,105
Raw Orange, Epreuve d'artiste
Richard Orlinski
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,105
Boutique éphémère à Nice
Richard Orlinski
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$726
Portrait d'un Buffle!
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$100
Edition Le Regard du Tigre 30
Miguel Guía
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$424
Fashion Monkey Dark blue
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 30 x 17 x 14 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 6.7 x 5.5 inch
$837 $670
Fashion Monkey Batman
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 30 x 17 x 14 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 6.7 x 5.5 inch
$837 $670
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,451
Heliugabalus Flowers
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 82 x 82 x 5 cm Painting - 32.3 x 32.3 x 2 inch
$3,664
Bar à Chats
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$982
Teddy Love Bleu Cote d'Azur
Nicolas Krauss
Sculpture - 23 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,233
Petit Cheval No. 61 (a.r. 470)
Pablo Picasso
Design - 25.5 x 25.5 x 2 cm Design - 10 x 10 x 0.8 inch
$15,070
Dentelle Panther
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 38 x 80 x 17 cm Sculpture - 15 x 31.5 x 6.7 inch
$53,581
Affinity IV, maquette
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 60 x 40 x 23 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 15.7 x 9.1 inch
$17,860
Metaphysical landscape with Cecile and Calypso observing the sunset of capitalism
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 45.7 x 71.1 x 0.6 cm Painting - 18 x 28 x 0.25 inch
$800
Born Wild Crocodile
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 48 x 110 x 48 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 43.3 x 18.9 inch
$13,953
Le Mont Saint-Michel
Raluca Vulcan
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
Untucked
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 71.1 x 50.5 x 0.5 cm Photography - 28 x 19.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,200
Insecte de feu
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 50 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$301
By the Fireplace
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 70 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,233
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.