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Unter einem guten Stern
Swen Timm Angermann
Painting - 69 x 59 x 4 cm Painting - 27.2 x 23.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,456
Grande tête de cheval
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 47 x 29 x 28 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 11.4 x 11 inch
$4,688
Singes sages rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 18 x 32 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 12.6 x 4.9 inch
$1,715
"Garden l" Painting
Mariah Birsak
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,121
Kaleidoscope 2
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$485
Kaleidoscope 3
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$490
Kaleidoscope 12
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$465
Kaleidoscope 16
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$385
Kaleidoscope 19
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$485
Betta Blur 22
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$465
Betta Blur 20
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$475
Cheval cabre en tole
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 230 x 55 x 200 cm Sculpture - 90.6 x 21.7 x 78.7 inch
$2,567
Together forever and ever (stretched)
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$949
The Stronger of the Two
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 26.5 x 48 x 15 cm Sculpture - 10.4 x 18.9 x 5.9 inch
$5,805
Scottish Blackface Ram (Ovis Aries)
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 60 x 62 x 42 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 24.4 x 16.5 inch
$6,921
Sirop maison 2
Andisheh Moghtaderpour
Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
$184
Sirop maison 1
Andisheh Moghtaderpour
Painting - 18 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
$184
Perroquet des étoiles
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$279
La jument VIVI
Mario Adornetto
Painting - 137.2 x 137.2 x 12.7 cm Painting - 54 x 54 x 5 inch
$9,400
Le léopard Sweyn
Mario Adornetto
Painting - 137.2 x 137.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 54 x 54 x 4 inch
$9,400
The three riders - Verdigris version
Marie Ackers
Sculpture - 89 x 70 x 30 cm Sculpture - 35 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
$24,205
Axel and his elephant
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 19 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,902
Paranthropus Robustus
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 45 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
$4,906
Les toutous de la rue Taylor
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$335
Vive les fleurs et les totems
Seb Paul Michel
Sculpture - 25 x 10 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 3.9 x 3.5 inch
$201
Madagascar, Alaotra-Mangoro, Manganaro, troupeau de vaches et de zébus
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$670
Tête de cheval impressionniste
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 53 x 21 x 30.5 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 8.3 x 12 inch
$1,429
Singes Sages Nickel
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 18 x 32 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 12.6 x 4.9 inch
$1,715
Cheval ferrari en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 300 x 60 x 230 cm Sculpture - 118.1 x 23.6 x 90.6 inch
$5,436
Among the mountains
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 204 x 280 x 4 cm Painting - 80.3 x 110.2 x 1.6 inch
$30,000
Majestic Standing Horse
Arun A.
Sculpture - 218 x 66 x 256 cm Sculpture - 85.8 x 26 x 100.8 inch
$23,442
Father and Daughter
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 99 x 29 x 28 cm Sculpture - 39 x 11.4 x 11 inch
$16,632
Interactive artwork - digital art Colo
David Dessens
Design - 147.74 x 85.42 x 9.93 cm Design - 58.2 x 33.6 x 3.9 inch
$56,595
Interactive artwork - digital art Mo
David Dessens
Design - 147.74 x 85.42 x 9.93 cm Design - 58.2 x 33.6 x 3.9 inch
$56,595
SOS Save our sharks xl
Bernard Rives
Sculpture - 148 x 125 x 58 cm Sculpture - 58.3 x 49.2 x 22.8 inch
$20,093
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.