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La chute- Chapitre 102 (Diptyque)
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$16,855
Bird in the nest
One KBCA
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.8 x 0.101 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$593
Ours Arnoff
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 40 x 20 x 16 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.9 x 6.3 inch
$9,551
Birthstone Series — Ruby #2
Sung Hee Kim
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$618
Lady with an ermine / Dama con armiño
Gizi
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,933
Vol de nuit
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 27 x 37 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 14.6 x 5.5 inch
$8,989
Victoire de Punta Arenas
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 64 x 39 x 30 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 15.4 x 11.8 inch
$17,979
Grands voyageurs
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 60 x 50 x 35 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 19.7 x 13.8 inch
$20,226
Oiseau rare
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 29 x 10 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 3.9 x 7.9 inch
$6,180
Mura Mura, le temps du rêve
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 19 x 58.5 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 23 x 3.9 inch
$11,237
Tango
Christian Couaillier
Sculpture - 41.5 x 33.5 x 14 cm Sculpture - 16.3 x 13.2 x 5.5 inch
$10,113
Blu aquatic dream
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$3,034
L'obscurité ne nuit qu'a celui qui la croit
Madame
Print - 60.3 x 70 cm Print - 23.7 x 27.6 inch
$551
Without the shadow of a dream
Levoy Exil
Painting - 76 x 102 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,471
Study of Lion
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 26.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.7 x 10.4 x 0 inch
$405
Tiger
Wilhelm Lorenz
Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.5 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$449
Etude from the series 191
Anastasiia Kolibaba
Painting - 53 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$500
Parenthood
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 75.6 x 55.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 29.75 x 21.75 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Motherhood
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 67.3 x 87.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26.5 x 34.5 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Solitude de l'éléphant dans le cratère du Ngorongoro. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,124 $1,011
Buffle sous le pont d'Agra, Taj Mahal. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,573
Léopard à la sieste. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,461
Guépard en surveillance. Tanzanie. Parc de Tarangire. Afrique
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,573
Repos du Zèbre. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$899
Poules et poulailler. Sénégal
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$899
Couple de Rhinocéros Blanc. Cratère du Ngorongoro. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$899
Girafe et ses poursuivants. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$899
Les trois grâce. Parc du Serengeti. Tanzanie.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$899
Seul dans la savane. Parc du Ngorongoro. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$899
Couple d’Éléphant. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$899
Grue cendré. Kenya
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$899
Tigre du Bengale. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$899
Girafe et girafon. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$899
Harmonie aquatique
Pierre Lamblin
Painting - 110 x 110 x 0.2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,697
La Red
Amanda Mijangos
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$618
El 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
$730
Courir vers l'espoir
Caroline Huet
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,832
Mission impossible
Stefan Georgiev
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,034
The myserious flight of a unicorn
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 110 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,967
Bones and butterflies
Alise Sheehan
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,500
L'oiseau des neiges
Franck Delorme
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,236
Crépuscule des Loups
Christine Pultz
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,742
Source de Lumière
Christine Pultz
Painting - 81 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$8,989
Concerto di Fenicotteri
Christine Pultz
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,742
Still life with bird and lamp
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 50 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$450
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.