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Graciela Iturbide, Des oiseaux - Édition limitée
Graciela Iturbide
Print - 25 x 19.5 cm Print - 9.8 x 7.7 inch
$666
Pan Troglodytes Singes
Rodrigo Romero Perez
Sculpture - 22 x 20 x 22 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 7.9 x 8.7 inch
$3,330
Textile Rabbits Ed. 3
Emmette Lewis
Painting - 50.8 x 40.64 x 3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.2 inch
$943
Interior with a bridge and cat
Francois Ledan
Print - 83.8 x 68.6 x 2.5 cm Print - 33 x 27 x 1 inch
$1,200 $1,080
Le teckel et la tortue
Claudio Locatelli
Sculpture - 15.5 x 10 x 15 cm Sculpture - 6.1 x 3.9 x 5.9 inch
$3,219
Untitled (Diana)
Miguel Branco
Sculpture - 25 x 36 x 10.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 14.2 x 4.1 inch
$6,105
Miss burlesque star
Artemisia Fine Art
Painting - 79.8 x 79.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 31.4 x 2 inch
$4,100
Cat
Novella Parigini
Fine Art Drawings - 67 x 47.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.4 x 18.7 x 0 inch
$610
Goldenefruchtwerfer (goldenfruitthrower)
Edgar Tezak-Neogy
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,220
Jose Maria Manzanares (padre)
Wai Ming Lung
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$1,054
Le Gorille Penseur
Hadrien David
Sculpture - 44 x 29 x 30 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 11.4 x 11.8 inch
$8,658
The island of Tofino
Ieva Trinkunaite
Painting - 175 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 68.9 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,998
When Mrs. Jenkins saw how good Jimmy could do it, she picked him as the judge for Miss Dog America
Donald Roller Wilson
Print - 76.2 x 51.4 cm Print - 30 x 20.25 inch
$4,500
Coccinelle Ladybird Bouteilles bottles
Gilles Le Corre
Painting - 74 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 29.1 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,164
223 Butterfly Spinpainting with Diamond Dust
Punk Me Tender
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
$12,210
Bust of a Horse
Domenico Mazzone
Sculpture - 20 x 37 x 12 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 14.6 x 4.7 inch
$8,436
Ours au poisson
Jean-Michel Chesné
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$943
Elephant Louis Vuitton Blue and Orange
Art Kristin
Sculpture - 23 x 26 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 10.2 x 4.3 inch
$1,332
Orques, Archipel Crozet / Paris Match
Benoît Gysembergh
Photography - 52 x 78 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.5 x 30.7 x 0 inch
$1,776
Le monde des chamanes ocre
Yves Cass
Painting - 74 x 57 x 1 cm Painting - 29.1 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,054
Quinze
Emeline Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$3,885
Deer (Sculpture Using Found Objects)
John Petrey
Sculpture - 210.8 x 68.6 x 55.9 cm Sculpture - 83 x 27 x 22 inch
$57,600
Sin título (Prayer Flags Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Sculpture - 45 x 52 x 0.5 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 20.5 x 0.2 inch
$245
Grand perroquet noir au cirque
Brigite Oury
Painting - 88 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 34.6 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$1,054
Perruche soleil
Twane
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$666
Cluster in Morpho (Small)
Daniel Byrne
Sculpture - 54 x 54 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 21.3 x 3.9 inch
$4,368
It will never be the last time
Gabriela Culic
Painting - 120 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,330
Etude from the series 191
Anastasiia Kolibaba
Painting - 27 x 52 x 1 cm Painting - 10.6 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
$500
La Caimana
Amanda Mijangos
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$610
El Descanso del Narrador
Armando Fonseca
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 65 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$721
Poetry of nature
Amir Soghrati
Painting - 190 x 400 x 4 cm Painting - 74.8 x 157.5 x 1.6 inch
$22,199
Rossinhòu rossinholet
Chiara Scarpone
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,054
Crabe de vase (Eurytium limosum)
Teuthis
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,443
Pitchou cute purple rain
Fratz & Gio
Sculpture - 47 x 25 x 50 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 9.8 x 19.7 inch
$6,549
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.