Camel (in rhythmic landscape with trees) Camel (in rhythmic landscape with trees) Camel (in rhythmic landscape with trees) ["German: Kamel (in rhythmischer baumlandschaft)"] is a painting by Swiss artist Paul Klee in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany. The painting is one of the first Klee did in oils and is typical of the artist's interest in colour theory, draughtsmanship and musicality. It is also one of many images in Western art to use camels as subject matter. The composition of the painting is based on horizontal bands dotted with circular shapes. Camels appear in manuscripts, mosaics, sculptures and paintings. For example, camels
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter has been hailed as "thrilling" ("The New York Sun") and "utterly astonishing" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), a "memorable performance...whose tone and oddly compelling vision are distinctly [Aira's] own" ("The Los Angeles Times"). In his "San Francisco Chronicle" review, critic Ilan Stavans places this work alongside that of Roberto Bolaño as a modern Latin American novel likely to endure beyond its present moment. 1. "Latin Americans Still Tweaking the Novel." San Francisco Chronicle. July 16, 2006. <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/16/RVGVPJQP0T1.DTL>. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira was first published in