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The blue bird (fairy tale)
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 29 x 35 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 13.8 x 6.7 inch
$681
Healing Greenland, Chunja & the dog
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,137
Le poisson jaune
Laurence Leccia
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,080
Healing Greenland, Chunja & The Tiger
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,137
Healing Greenland, Chunja and The Monkey Brothers
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,137
Hommage à Lalanne
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 88 x 65 x 38 cm Sculpture - 34.6 x 25.6 x 15 inch
$18,188
Flying Apsaras Crossing Mountains
Qing-Yan Li
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$1,876
Black wolf-fire impact
Cyril Maccioni
Sculpture - 30 x 14.5 x 19 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.7 x 7.5 inch
$2,046
Star Jewelry, I am that I am
Minako Asakura
Fine Art Drawings - 31.8 x 41 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.5 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,591
Marlin Azul "Deepwater"
Philippe Dias
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,876
Stand appart from the crowd
Nite Owl
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,023 $818
Couple II - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,250
Ensemble de feuilles ou de papillons #2
Françoise Danel
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$398
The eye of the earth
Shulan Wang
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,364
Pink Floyd ou Flamants rose
Jez Baille Bosio
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,046
Coco - série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,114
Grand Duc aux chardons - série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,114
Ours blanc - série ours polaire
André-Marc Serrano
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,064
Spirit of the West
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.04 inch
$4,000
La gourmandise et ses conséquences
Frieda Mouroum
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$682
Conversation d'oiseaux
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 30 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$796
Girl with a Lamb
David Popiashvili
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,600
Poisson voyageur
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,137
Galichromie
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 120 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,274
Hippopotamus amphibius 02
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,478
Hippopotamus amphibius 01
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,478
Tigresse de l'Amour 01
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 80 x 74 cm Photography - 31.5 x 29.1 inch
$1,364
Mouton migrateur
Paule Bernard Roussel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$2,274
Liberty
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 65 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,364
Meeting
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,364
Flamingo
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
Koi Fish in a Slow Flowing River
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,274
Ink album (Lizard)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$341
Camargue 1 - Paysage abstrait et cheval
Brigitte Darras dite Bivan
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,421
L'Envol de l'aigrette - Paysage marin et abstraction
Brigitte Darras dite Bivan
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,421
Amour et liberté - Oiseaux en mouvement dans les cieux
Fanny Laffitte
Painting - 36 x 26 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$932
Tendresse - Paysage et couple d'oiseaux
Fanny Laffitte
Painting - 34 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,216
Début du monde : la mer - série Paysage et histoire du monde
Michel Philippon
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,705
Butterfly "Eclosion" N°1259
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$909
Chalama albâtre
Martine Lingelser-Schmidt
Sculpture - 25 x 17 x 7 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.7 x 2.8 inch
$1,137
Still Life (Birds)
Larry Snider
Photography - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$341
colors festival bulldog
Priscilla Vettese
Sculpture - 24 x 14 x 12 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.5 x 4.7 inch
$341
Le Philosophe
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,705
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.