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Koomote three: Koi attack
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
£1,375
Un peu plus près du paradis
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
£2,395
Grand Singe au cigare
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 80 x 45 x 70 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 17.7 x 27.6 inch
£1,952
The Birds over Horsehold
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£1,800
La tienta sous un ciel gris
Brigitte Rouzaud
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£381
Marriage of the crowd
Mehdi Mirbagheri
Painting - 120 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
£9,758
Grand Ours Polaire
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 22 x 42 x 14 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 16.5 x 5.5 inch
£7,895
Copper Panther
Steve Chaudanson
Sculpture - 102.9 x 230 x 62.5 cm Sculpture - 40.5 x 90.6 x 24.6 inch
£46,130
Dignity Colibri Red & Gold
Ernesto Yerena Montejano
Print - 20.3 x 25.4 x 0.1 cm Print - 8 x 10 x 0 inch
£177
Animals Business
Katia Ferrari
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
£798 £639
Girl with Dog
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£9,758
Face Totem 6
Themanfromthefuture Urano
Painting - 30 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
£177
Le Renard, Les Mouches et le Hérisson
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£5,766
The Blue Sky Above
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,900
Pélican au grand bec
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 5.9 inch
£1,996
The Woman with the Gulls
Alain Le Chapelier
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
£692
Le poisson et l'oiseau rouge
Thierry Rouxel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£355
Flying Dragon Floating Cloud
Hongda
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
£1,934
Summer mood III-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 52 x 22 x 13 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 8.7 x 5.1 inch
£435
Poule faisane
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 46 x 40 x 15.5 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 15.7 x 6.1 inch
£6,653
Chouette Hulotte
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 29 x 14 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 5.5 x 3.9 inch
£4,613
Resilient Spirit
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
£3,089
Viva la vida No.11
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 40.1 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
£244
Summer mood II-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 41 x 15 x 24 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 5.9 x 9.4 inch
£435
Spirale de Fibonacci 9
Lillia Baudo
Painting - 92 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,996
Odieuse créature
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£577
Amazing Fantasy-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 33.5 x 24.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.2 x 9.6 x 3.1 inch
£373
Eiko La Crécerelle
Virginie Chardon
Sculpture - 43 x 36 x 24 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 14.2 x 9.4 inch
£5,411
Hecatomb of the bulls V
Roberto Matta
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
£2,439
Sans titre (Chien)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 75 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
£1,597
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.