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Voyage entre deux mondes
Clara Crespin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Fondo marino - corales
Charo Velasco
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,458
Forest After Snow
Liu Ziyu
Painting - 62 x 53 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.4 x 20.9 x 0 inch
$2,019 $1,717
Por tu Boca - Through Your Mouth
Peperina Magenta
Print - 49.5 x 69.9 x 1.9 cm Print - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.75 inch
$3,600
Behind the Door
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 96 x 147 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 57.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Contemplum #024
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.03 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$954
Bug in the system 009
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Print - 21 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 8.3 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,402
There is no Pressure on the Water
You Wu
Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 140 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.4 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$1,795
St. George and the Dragon
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 inch
$13,687
Monkey black business
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 57 x 37 x 47 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 14.6 x 18.5 inch
$4,432
Contemplum #023
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 19 x 29 x 0.03 cm Photography - 7.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$729
Les Chevelus
Jean-Charles Mandou
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$1,234 $1,049
Géographie improbable (jaune)
Chesca
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,032
Je suis la meilleure
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$449
Euh, comment je peux dire ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$449
Hérons, hérons petits, pas tapons
Peggy Cardoso
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,290
La mouche bleue (The Blue Fly)
Matthew Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$841
Que reste-t-il ? I/IV
Sophie Larroche
Sculpture - 26 x 15 x 12 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 5.9 x 4.7 inch
$2,917
Hot to trot
Gabrielle Pool
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$589
Stilt Walkers
Gabrielle Pool
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$589
Chromatic Water Lilies
Sofia Beltadze
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,683
Patient prowess lll
Mariah Birsak
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,693
A cheerful still life.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 69.6 x 49.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 27.4 x 19.6 x 2 inch
$1,950
A Parrot's Sour Treat: Lemons and Limes
Grace Diehl
Painting - 27.9 x 35.6 x 1 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.4 inch
$1,026
Skybound: A Garden Avian
Grace Diehl
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
$1,026
Chirping Connections
Grace Diehl
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.7 inch
$1,845
An Ancient Egyptian Mystery
Grace Diehl
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch
$1,845
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.