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Carré d'artistes presents you a large selection of animal paintings. The animal painting is characterized by the representation more or less figurative of one or more animals in a painting. 

Why buy an animal painting?

Nature is a source of inspiration for animal painters, the motifs such as wild and domestic animals are by their strong decorative potential. 

Carré d'artistes offers a magnificent collection that will undoubtedly please art lovers and wall decorators. The modern animal paintings will perfectly complete the decoration of an apartment
flat, they can embellish a living room, a dining room, a living room, an office, a bedroom. 

Want a little more "pep" in your interior? Choose a tropical jungle decoration or a pop art animal decoration with wild animals! 
Looking for a little more calm? We have a wide range of black and white animal paintings.
Your interior decoration will be unique, like our artworks and our painters!
 

Customised animal paintings 

🐕 Turn any animal into a work of art!
At Carré d'artistes, our painters are at your disposal to make you a personalized animal painting! A particular desire? An inspiration?
You can make your request in the tab "personalized work", it takes only one click to meet your expectations!
 

Animal paintings - Wild animals

Our art curators have selected wild animals paintings from Africa with elephants, lions, zebras bring a bit of African savannah to your home.
For the lovers of our continental forests, bet on our forest animals paintings with wolves, deers...
 

Animal pictures - Pets

For the youngest, cute animal pictures will nicely decorate a child's or teenager's room. Thanks to their soft colours and trendy shades, they will bring a cute and colourful touch to your decoration.

Visit our art galleries and browse our wide selection of paintings featuring your favourite animals.
Explore our online site and select the medium of your choice to further enhance your favourite animal portrait.
 

Characteristics of the animal painting

Definition 

An animal painting is easily recognizable: it is figurative, since it is possible to identify,
at least one animal. It can be a pet, like a dog or a cat, or a domestic animal, like a horse or a dog.
a domestic animal, such as a horse or farm animal, or a wild animal. Any species from the fauna can be represented. The possibility of composition is therefore immense.
Nevertheless, animal painting only became a genre in its own right in modern times.
Before that, although animals were depicted in paintings, they were almost never the central subject of the picture. 
 

Techniques 

For a long time, paintings of animals were made using the oil painting technique. But with the advent of acrylics, most paintings are made with this medium. The elaboration of an animal painting goes through an essential preparatory phase: that of the drawing and the sketch. Many animal drawings can therefore be found throughout history, especially for classical art education, since animal postures and expressions are excellent training for any art education. 
 

History of animal painting 

Animal painting is ancient. As early as prehistoric times, in cave art, we find representations of animals in caves (the Chauvet cave or the Lascaux cave, for example). Antiquity also used animals as subjects: it represented animals that were familiar or mythological. The Middle Ages reproduced animals that are present in the Bible. We find, among others, representations of sheep, horses, dogs, foxes and birds. At the same time, a large fantasy bestiary developed.

Later, during the Renaissance and classical periods, the horse often appears in paintings. Like the dog, it is an animal that is very close to man in this period. Hunting painting also provided an opportunity to paint dogs and game with meticulous realism. While the animal is often the primary subject of a sculpture, the same cannot be said of a painting. Before the 20th century and the rise of animal painting, few painters painted portraits of animals. 
 

Famous animal paintings

One of the most famous animal paintings is Piero di Cosimo's The Forest Fire (1515). The early 16th-century tapestries of the Lady with the Unicorn are an essential part of art history. At the same time, we find the Rhinoceros (1515) engraved by Dürer, or the Dogfight by Franck Snyders. Gauguin's famous White Horse (1898) is also remembered. In the 20th century, among the most famous, we come across Picasso and his numerous representations of birds and bulls, or Foujita and his immoderate love of cats of which he made portraits. 

At Carré d'artistes, discover animal paintings by contemporary artists such as  
Anne R , Hervé Maury , Raphaële Lennoz , Moogly , and many others.