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
Art in the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation and merely gives insight into the everyday life of the Flemish peasant. Another great painter of his age, Lucas van Leyden (1489–1533), is known mostly for his engravings, such as "The Milkmaid", which depicts peasants with milk cows. This engraving, from 1510, well before the Reformation, contains no reference to religion or classicism, although much of his other work features both. Bruegel was also an accomplished landscape painter. Frequently Bruegel painted agricultural landscapes, such as "Summer" from his famous set of the seasons, where he shows peasants harvesting wheat in the country, with a few workers taking a lunch break