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La mouette chef d'escadrille
Timothy Archer
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$3,588
Bee Licious
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,363
Koomote three: Koi attack
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
$1,738
Dancing Swallows III
Ottelien Huckin
Painting - 60 x 42 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,386
Dancing Swallows II
Ottelien Huckin
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,386
Gathering of monarchs
Daniel Clarke
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$168
Lucky catcher
Volodymyr Mykytenko
Sculpture - 31 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,300
Sacred Forest I
Fernando Alday
Fine Art Drawings - 81 x 130 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.9 x 51.2 inch
$3,475
Miguel Angel Perera
Wai Ming Lung
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$1,065
Wild lens - Flamingos
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 50 x 150 x 3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,119
Copper Panther
Steve Chaudanson
Sculpture - 102.9 x 230 x 62.5 cm Sculpture - 40.5 x 90.6 x 24.6 inch
$58,297
The Gig
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 4 x 10 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 1.6 x 3.9 x 0 inch
$471
Nidification et crépuscule
Timothy Archer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$3,924
April Fish - Red and Blue
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$335
Poisson rouge, hommage à Matisse
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$335
A Promise to Tread More Lightly
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,519
All the Other Birds in the Maple
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,519
Pulling Bracken
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,519
Le poisson et l'oiseau rouge
Thierry Rouxel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$448
Au feu de la joie
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$3,980
Drôle d'oiseau
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 14 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
$168
I always dreamed to be a Monster
Eric Ullrich
Painting - 91 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$3,139
Achtung! / Attention!
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 90 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$729
Der Toro / Le Toro
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 90 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$729
L'échapée sauvage
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,484
Princesse de la jungle
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,588
Chronos et la lame du destin
Timothy Archer
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,615
Le dresseur des confins
Timothy Archer
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$7,287
Jeune Poséidon à la murène amoureuse
Timothy Archer
Painting - 125 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,615
Le souper d'Hécate
Timothy Archer
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$7,623
Hécate et le triple retour
Timothy Archer
Painting - 150 x 150 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 2 inch
$7,623
A Chapter of Tranquility
Desmond Akindoju
Painting - 91.4 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 32 x 1 inch
$2,500
Prélude de la goutte d'eau
Clara Crespin
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,466
Horse xtrem colors
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 60 x 35 x 50 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 13.8 x 19.7 inch
$3,924
La daine d'hiver
Elizabeth Portnova
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 6.7 inch
$3,700
La bête poétique
Elizabeth Portnova
Sculpture - 48 x 33 x 25 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 13 x 9.8 inch
$2,803
Le rat couronné
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,139
Grues du Japon parade II
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 35 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 13.8 inch
$10,650
Charge de l’éléphant d'Afrique
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 23 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
$11,099
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.