Rytm och form och andra fragmenter om kinesisk och europeisk målarkonst
Rytm och form och andra fragmenter is a 1917 Stockholm art-historical study in Swedish by art historian Osvald Sirén, comparing Chinese and European painting through its themes and motives. Its plates are fragmentary reproductions of Chinese paintings: a group of arhats and Taoist figures with a crane, a mountain ledge with pines, and a small boat on misty water. A designer might take their loose compositional rhythm, tonal wash, and the use of empty space around figures and trees.
