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Taureau prêt à charger
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 205 x 250 x 85 cm Sculpture - 80.7 x 98.4 x 33.5 inch
$5,179
Cheval au trot 2
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 210 x 300 x 80 cm Sculpture - 82.7 x 118.1 x 31.5 inch
$5,654
Croco Spirit (Purple Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 9.5 x 22 x 8 cm Design - 3.7 x 8.7 x 3.1 inch
$328
Kong penseur (spirit rouge)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 10 x 7 cm Design - 5.1 x 3.9 x 2.8 inch
$441
Abstract coral and fish
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$679
Spanish Dancer Nudibranch Sea Life Creation
Olga Nikitina
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$679
Giraffe and her three daughters
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 77 x 16 x 23 cm Sculpture - 30.3 x 6.3 x 9.1 inch
$6,672
Dreaming rabbit-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 35.5 x 35 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14 x 13.8 x 8.7 inch
$667
The problem with the wolf
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 25 x 48 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 18.9 x 3.9 inch
$6,785
Rhinocéros en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 120 x 230 x 70 cm Sculpture - 47.2 x 90.6 x 27.6 inch
$5,202
Ours debout Crystal clear full fractal bleu
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 80 x 52 x 58 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 20.5 x 22.8 inch
$79,049
Charging Bull No. 2
Mario Henrique
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,410
The empresses - Wu zetian
Damien Hirst
Print - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Print - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$6,729
Golden Bird, 1/25
Jaromir Gargulak
Sculpture - 4 x 15 x 7 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 5.9 x 2.8 inch
$520 $468
Histoires naturelles, Choupatte + En Puisaye
François-Xavier Lalanne
Print - 34 x 27 cm Print - 13.4 x 10.6 inch
$1,357
Orange Funny Dragon I
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 22.5 x 17 x 13 cm Sculpture - 8.9 x 6.7 x 5.1 inch
$582
Kleine pup met krulstaartje (Small pup with curly tail)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 12 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
$848
La femme battue et les éléphants
Amor de Agua
Painting - 40 x 30 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$792
Insects' Secrets 6
Boris Pramatarov
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 15 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,006
Cloned Schnauzer with water bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 55 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 21.7 x 9.1 inch
$848
Kong baril noir
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 17 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 6.7 x 4.3 inch
$3,393
Portrait with Bird
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Caballero, Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dali
Print - 101.6 x 81.3 x 0.5 cm Print - 40 x 32 x 0.2 inch
$12,000
Animal vegetal
Jonathan Van Durmen
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,515
Relics from the Anthropocene
Gordon Carmichael
Painting - 55 x 52 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,527
Votive Offerings
Gordon Carmichael
Painting - 52 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 20.5 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,131
My French Bulldog is Happy
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 29 x 15 x 37 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 5.9 x 14.6 inch
$2,488
Affinity IV, maquette
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 60 x 40 x 23 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 15.7 x 9.1 inch
$18,094
Golden Monkey
Valerian Sioridzé
Sculpture - 32 x 19 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.5 x 4.7 inch
$1,414
Sans titre
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 200 x 150 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$10,178
Dans la forêt II
Taeho Choi
Fine Art Drawings - 150 x 120 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
1990 Pingouin Penguin
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,301
The Fall of Dürer’s Hare
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 22 x 35 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$679 $611
Cloned Polar Bear with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 26 x 21 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 10.2 x 8.3 inch
$5,654
Contemporary portrait "The Feast"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 70 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,262
Contemporary portrait "Inside the Painting"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,262
Profondeur infinie n°12 - série fond marin
Moniq
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,262
Very shine / Tout timide
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 23 x 10 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 3.9 x 4.3 inch
$2,488
Dangerous beauty, Painting, Oil on canvas
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,280
Red snake, Painting, Oil on canvas
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 119.9 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$4,150
Only love can hurt like this
Yohan Storti
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$317
Copain copine
Françoise Dugourd-Caput
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,425
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.