THE ORDER OF RHYTHM IN THE ATTITUDES OF LINES

91. It often happens that a line repeated in different attitudes

gives us the sense of movement. It does this when the grouping of the

repetitions suggests instability. The movement is rhythmical when it

exhibits a regularity of changes in the attitudes and in the intervals

of the changes.

[Illustration: Fig. 118]

In this case we have a movement to the right, but no Rhythm, the

intervals being irregular.

[Illustration: Fig. 119]

In this case the changes of attitude and the intervals of the changes

being regular, the movement becomes rhythmical. The direction of the

rhythm is clearly down-to-the-right.

92. In the repetition of any line we have a Harmony, due to the

repetition. If the line is repeated in the same attitude, we have a

Harmony of Attitudes. If it is repeated in the same intervals, we have

a Harmony of Intervals. We have Harmony, also, in the repetition of any

relation of attitudes or of intervals.

We have not yet considered the arrangement or composition of two or

more lines of different measures and of different shapes.

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