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flowers, the pink, the iris, the hyacinth, the rose and the marigold; Japanese 

 art uses the peach and the cherry blossom, the chrysanthemum and the 

 bamboo motif. These plant forms are familiar to these respective countries 

 and civilizations just as roses, lilacs or apple trees are familiar to us. 



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Rhythmic Line in Natural Forms 



Rhythmic Line in Design Motifs 



Rhythm Through Repetition in Nature 



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Rhythm Through Repetition in Design 



Emphasizing Through Exaggeration and Refinement 



Exaggeration and repetition of the jagged edge of a leaf and simplifica- 

 tion of the leaf shaped to a triangle: As soon as we have chosen carefully 

 the form to be used as the basic of our design we should choose the par- 

 ticular point about that form which makes it different from any other. In a 



