Un episodio en la pintura viajera. El artista de César Aira

Abstract

This article intends to show the relationship between language and painting; for that purpose, a series of examples in literary pieces by different authors is referred to. Later, a stop is made in the novel Episodio en la Vida del Pintor Viajero by César Aira, where a painter who actually existed is boarded, that is Rugendas, and is presented as a character in the novel, but also his work can be understood as the general labor of the artist and his procedures, of the artist and his search of a hidden, secret goal.

Keywords

• rugendas
• painting
• literature
• landscape
• artist
• procedure