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 sense of what Humboldt calls "physiognomic totality," an understanding of each work as a portrait of the environment as a whole. In Argentina, Rugendas' adventure into the Pampas almost costs him his life when he is struck by lightning while riding his horse and then dragged through the Pampas as his horse flees. This leaves him horribly disfigured. As Rugendas struggles to recover physically he now sees the landscape with an altered vision. Aira's themes include the persistence of the artist and the sustaining power of his will to continue painting. "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter"