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More Than a Bird More Than a Plane
Derek Gores
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,328
Ma non era mai andato così in collera
Pablo Echaurren
Painting - 27 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 10.6 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$1,992
La naissance de la chèvre
Antonio Dos Santos (de Olinda)
Painting - 50 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$885
Margueritte, rosalie, and cow
Christophe Thiry
Painting - 24 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,549
Tribute to Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Obey, Banksy, Picasso, C215
Joy Austin
Print - 60 x 45 x 1 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$183
Crouched Lioness and Rabbits
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 44.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 17.5 x 0.1 inch
$609
Dave Mattheus & Tim Reynolds
Alan Berry Rhys
Print - 62 x 46 x 1 cm Print - 24.4 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$254
Portrait of leopard
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,328
You know, i can be blue, or not...
François Nasica
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,328
Ngor
Ndoye Douts
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,660
Painting face with a bird
Aurélie Gravas
Painting - 140 x 115 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 45.3 x 2 inch
$5,532
Stok of Stek Hotel
Wycliffe Opondo
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,438
Regards croisés, Trinidad, Cuba
Hervé FABRE
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,106
Pégase Captif 1889 / Captive Pegasus 1889
Odilon Redon
Print - 66.5 x 57 cm Print - 26.2 x 22.4 inch
$658
Boba Fett
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 26 x 19.5 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.7 x 2.2 inch
$885 $797
Mahsa and the lion
Mehnoush Modonpour
Painting - 46 x 38 x 1.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.6 inch
$974
Volatiles
Korsé
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,106
Fleeing to Egypt
Eugenio Larminiani
Painting - 54 x 72.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.5 x 0 inch
$1,660
Fragment de gorille
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 48 x 35 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 13.8 x 7.9 inch
$12,171
Peacock Moon Sun
Wysszbar
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$990
Chouette assise
Madeleine Van der Knoop
Sculpture - 27 x 23 x 13 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 9.1 x 5.1 inch
$4,315
Just a horse with no name and a silly flame
Teodor Genov – Pastedko
Painting - 27 x 37 x 0.2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0.1 inch
$609
The violinistt and his furry friend
Yulia Dvoiris
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$700
Le piscarius et les harpies frivoles
Didier Hamey
Print - 32 x 27 x 0.2 cm Print - 12.6 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$387
Le Lapin et son Territoire
Fabiana Peña
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,051
Renuka
Kiim Hyun Kim
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$996
Autoportrait aviaire
Hatem Akrout
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,213
Paz / Peace
Manuel Marteles
Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 21.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.6 x 8.5 inch
$1,106
1987 Le Tigre et le Sage The Tiger and the Monk
Song Jiha
Print - 102 x 82 cm Print - 40.2 x 32.3 inch
$1,051
Remy - Portrait animalier toucan
Ezya
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$553
Les mantes religieuses
André Jacquemin
Fine Art Drawings - 48.5 x 38 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.1 x 15 x 0 inch
$1,992
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.