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
The Red Balloon it...[to] see "The Red Balloon" is to laugh, and cry, at the impossible joy of being a child again." Film critic Brian Gibson wrote, "So far, this seems a post-Occupation France happy to forget the blood and death of Hitler's war a decade earlier. But soon people’s occasional, playful efforts to grab the floating, carefree balloon become grasping and destructive. In a gorgeous sequence, light streaming down alleys as children's shoes clack and clatter on the cobblestones, the balloon bouncing between the walls, Pascal is hunted down for his floating pet. Its ballooning sense of hope and freedom is deflated