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Two Hares in the Velvet Woods
Mariko Ando
Print - 15.2 x 11.4 x 5.1 cm Print - 6 x 4.5 x 2 inch
$750
The Song of the Deer
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$1,831
Portrait Royal Meoxit Cat - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,135
Feeding The Birds
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$472
Hayet, déesse Egyptienne
Fefe Talavera
Painting - 115 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,618
Papillon psychédélique #1
Sparkle
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,124
Où il y a de la vie, il y a de l'espoir... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
L'échappée belle...
Olivier Messas
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Le chant des oiseaux... (Origami 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,067
Her best friend
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Blop blop - série décor et poisson
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$775
Madame Butterfly Sculpture
Yunior Marino
Sculpture - 134.6 x 129.5 x 38.1 cm Sculpture - 53 x 51 x 15 inch
$12,000
Sea Horse
Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth
Sculpture - 30 x 42 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 16.5 x 3.5 inch
$3,427
Horse's Head
Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth
Sculpture - 38 x 35 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15 x 13.8 x 4.7 inch
$4,236
The Night Hunter
Mela Ann Cooke
Sculpture - 63 x 46 x 28 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 18.1 x 11 inch
$11,709
Vanité aux papillons rouges
Philippe Pasqua
Painting - 130 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$12,248
Vaches dans le champ
Armand Cacheux
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,032
008- Série Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,348
001- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,348
Algerie-Les Touaregs_Sahara. Tassili N'Ajjer
Nadia Ferroukhi
Photography - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
L'Oiseau des Îles et les fleurs
Paul Mathey
Painting - 28.5 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 11.2 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$918
L’araignée blanche
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$337
Un après-midi au Manège
Maria Teresa Bertina
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$7,304
Sleeping beauty awakes
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 61 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,584
Portrait of leopard
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 92 x 71 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,843
Lord of the jungle
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 76 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,921
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.