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Five Flowers and a Chameleon
Kat Zhivetin
Painting - 95 x 95 x 0.2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,370
Oiseau bleu polaire et étoile
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 85 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$1,652
Oiseau et lune fire rouge
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 85 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$1,652
Still life with birds
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
$900
Pink Poodle
George Panossian
Sculpture - 90 x 90 x 51 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 35.4 x 20.1 inch
$16,744
Sailor Pigeon
George Panossian
Sculpture - 203.2 x 165.1 x 175.3 cm Sculpture - 80 x 65 x 69 inch
$16,744
The Horse that Wanted Revenge on the Stag
Salvador Dali
Print - 59 x 79 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.2 x 31.1 x 0 inch
$1,507
Les messes basses
Geraldine Bandiziol
Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$753
Tauromachie aux papillons (1)
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54.5 x 0.02 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch
$1,340
Aurum 11
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 42.5 x 35.5 x 5 cm Painting - 16.7 x 14 x 2 inch
$1,112
World love - gold peace turtle
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 25 x 40 x 25 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 15.7 x 9.8 inch
$1,094
L'heure de la traite
Pascal Hayot
Painting - 54 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
Mouette rieuse
Catherine Clare
Sculpture - 31 x 36 x 11 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 14.2 x 4.3 inch
$1,340
Portrait with koi fishes
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$850
Finding Nemo in the Coral Sea
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 38 x 0.1 inch
$910
Large scale - Ocean
Eliana Sá
Painting - 105.5 x 170 x 4 cm Painting - 41.5 x 66.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,177 $1,959
Red ladybug
Chahrazed Fekih
Fine Art Drawings - 40.5 x 59.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.9 x 23.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,898
Opposites Attract. Diptych
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 55.9 x 188 x 0.5 cm Photography - 22 x 74 x 0.2 inch
$5,000
Cleared for Takeoff
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 77 x 121.9 x 0.5 cm Photography - 30.3 x 48 x 0.2 inch
$3,000
Magic girl, no V/VIII
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 20 x 6 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 2.4 x 3.7 inch
$1,440 $1,296
Ane et cheval en Provence
Yves Brayer
Painting - 37 x 28 x 1 cm Painting - 14.6 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$1,563
Carter Visiting Rothko...
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 60 x 45 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,100
Cubiste Cheval Guernica Rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 28 x 12 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11 x 4.7 x 3.5 inch
$647
Being is love / 433
Christine Zanella
Painting - 9.5 x 9.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 3.7 x 3.7 x 0 inch
$179
Two elephants entwined
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 11 x 12 x 9 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 4.7 x 3.5 inch
$1,898
Run there fast !
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 13 x 5.5 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 2.2 x 3.7 inch
$1,340
Underwater painting Abstract coral reef was made underwater
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,233
Whispers of the autumn forest
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 62 x 77 x 2 cm Painting - 24.4 x 30.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,786
Through the storm
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,898
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 3
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,112
We Are The Square Jocular Clan 4
Takashi Murakami
Print - 47 x 47 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,112
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.