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Elle pousse le chariot - série métaux de récupération
Daniel Bligny
Sculpture - 35 x 34 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 13.4 x 7.9 inch
$820
Blue parrot. Fun and lightness.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$566
The thin place beckons
Gill Bustamante
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$3,725
Protective Pooch
Arthur Steel
Photography - 66 x 86 x 1 cm Photography - 26 x 33.9 x 0.4 inch
$3,055
Uproar Landseer Lion
Arthur Steel
Photography - 66 x 86 x 1 cm Photography - 26 x 33.9 x 0.4 inch
$3,055
Battements... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$679
Betta Collage 11
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$540
Betta Kings
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$535
El Universo - The Universe
Peperina Magenta
Print - 99.1 x 69.9 x 2.5 cm Print - 39 x 27.5 x 1 inch
$5,200
L'envolée de lumière... II (origami 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 37 x 37 x 6 cm Painting - 14.6 x 14.6 x 2.4 inch
$679
Tête à Tête - Petite arche à l'aérographe
La Robotte
Print - 50 x 38 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$232
Blue Moon Diamond Dust - Bunnies
Hunt Slonem
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 inch
$36,212
Girl with blue bird and Balloon ops!! red Bubble
Utopia
Painting - 120 x 105 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,848
Ours Bleu à Marinière Co. N°4
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 inch
$1,222
Le champs de quinoa...
Patricia Henricy Cruzalegui
Painting - 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$792 $713
Retour de chasse au vase bleu
Charles Monnier
Painting - 73 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,054
Et Dieu créa le cheval
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 40 x 24 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.4 x 11.8 inch
$15,843
Hommage à Léonard de Vinci
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 60 x 60 x 50 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$22,067
Nestor du domaine
Arnaud Kasper
Sculpture - 42 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
$12,448
Winter Robin II
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$373
Conchiglia
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 18.5 x 21 x 0.4 cm Painting - 7.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$192 $164
les cranquettes
Laurence Leccia
Painting - 267 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 105.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,074
Un Français a donné un canapé, quatre chaises et un fauteuil
Alexander Daniloff
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 24 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$294
La gardienne de mon coeur
Agnès Robin
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 inch
$1,710
Boss Lion XXL
Yaniv Edery
Sculpture - 210 x 130 x 100 cm Sculpture - 82.7 x 51.2 x 39.4 inch
$107,505
Le troupeau de vaches
Ivonaldo Veloso de Melo
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$18,672
Homar'ie si tu savais
Christopher Lecoutre
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$736
Capricorno, serie Segni zodiacali
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 19 x 19 x 0.2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
$88
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.