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Jérôme Sorolla "Le parrain des arts"
Sculpture - 38 x 17 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15 x 6.7 x 5.9 inch
$455
Twist, Gradient Ordinal Murmuration
Jake Michael Singer
Sculpture - 100 x 82 x 90 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 32.3 x 35.4 inch
$30,693
Nostalgic Horse Toys
Abgar Khachatryan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$750
Les ombres blanches
Anne Bachelier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$7,730
Apparition X
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,046
Banana Republic #3 (Oeuvre unique)
Karl Kox
Print - 75 x 70 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.5 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$853 $597
Basic Instincts: The Horse
OONA
Photography - 35.2 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 13.9 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,705
George Boy 2.0
Ben Koracevic
Sculpture - 62 x 75 x 75 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 29.5 x 29.5 inch
$73,890
Look at this beauty, honey
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 94 x 94 x 2 cm Painting - 37 x 37 x 0.8 inch
$1,478
Le centaure, Chiron
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 146 x 48 x 80 cm Sculpture - 57.5 x 18.9 x 31.5 inch
$68,206
La Fille au Coq ou Belarus
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 80 x 60 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$2,814
Polo Party - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$3,751
Cabinet des Lapins
Corine Perier
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$8,185
Animal Painting #018-1632
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,546
Seven Black Cats - Contemporary portrait
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Print - 80 x 55 x 1.5 cm Print - 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,478
Runners, messengers – Black Edition
Gabrielle Rul
Print - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 12.4 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
$108
Entrainement sur la plage, Deauville
Adélaïde Leferme
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.6 inch
$171
The evening light.
Giulnara Khabibulina
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,115
Line of Dialogue
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 61 x 39.6 x 0.5 cm Photography - 24 x 15.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,800
Le Cantique des oiseaux, Le Héron
Katia Kameli
Sculpture - 49 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$8,526
Countryside Encounter
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$450
Yokai
L'encredufauve
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 22.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 8.9 x 0.2 inch
$568
Yellow Rabbit-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 46 x 33 x 14 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 13 x 5.5 inch
$625
Nite Nite (White)
Tatsuhiro Ide
Sculpture - 30 x 25.9 x 26.9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 10.2 x 10.6 inch
$5,500
Jungle bleue a green hill valley
Christophe Ronel
Painting - 81 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,774
Tortue avec stèle
Ivan Theimer
Sculpture - 79.5 x 17.5 x 13 cm Sculpture - 31.3 x 6.9 x 5.1 inch
$25,009
Keep Flying
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,956
La pieuvre boule - série sculpture animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 25 x 34 x 35 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 13.4 x 13.8 inch
$2,131
Tête de buffle N° 6/8
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 59 x 44 x 43 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 17.3 x 16.9 inch
$14,778
Triptyque crocodile - Série sculpture bois animaux
Matthieu Libault
Sculpture - 87 x 40 x 12 cm Sculpture - 34.3 x 15.7 x 4.7 inch
$1,137
Marchands de chevaux
Percival Pernet
Painting - 48 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,200
Le Cristal de la Terre
Clara Crespin
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$6,480
Panthère cristal (1)
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 55 x 150 x 35 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 59.1 x 13.8 inch
$15,346
Seul dans ce monde de... - série animaux marins fantaisistes
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$995
Eternal Moments: Bird and Timepiece
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$480
Wintery Hare
Christian Frederiksen
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 15 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.2 inch
$921
Colombe spring break
Ami imaginaire
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,648
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.