You have a long tradition here of exploring the elemental in art -- the Light and Space movement, for example.
In both traditions, we may find death-bed healing without curing and be struck by the urgent, transcendental role of Beauty, as expressed in nature (human and elemental), the arts, architecture, and music.
Of early Islamic art, elemental and austere, there isn't much.
Violence, as an elemental part of human experience, is equally present in art, he says, but has often been brushed aside or ignored.
Of course, there has always been a certain control-freak aspect to those titanic, elemental Earth Art projects.
Danish artist whose sculptures and large-scale installation art employed elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's experience of the ordinary.
He strains the moral impunity of high art to an elemental limit, assuring himself an august, unquiet immortality.
There's something very ice and fire about Savages and Bo Ningen, who come together this month for a collaborative performance and recording that's part surrealist art project, part elemental clash.
But to Dr. Brown, known for formulating the high-end Ré Vive skin-care line for recovering surgical patients (and then discovering that it worked on aging skin as well), it is more elemental than any of the art he has collected, including Helen Frankenthaler and Ellsworth Kelly.
These reveal in him an elemental and natural leaning toward decorative art and strong colours.
