Together these works highlight the radical simplicity and directness of Cimabue's art, without letting it completely steal the show.

And the radical simplicity was right.

Mr. Illich was a deeply spiritual man who embodied in his way of life a radical Christian simplicity.

Here, though, this radical simplicity has become a cliche, more related to graphic design than to expression.

Perhaps the radical simplicity of a Zen monk would clarify the issue: We cannot separate mind from body, and cannot work creatively from a distance.

Hammershoi's landscape, by contrast, contains something of the radical simplicity, restless energy, even ominousness of 20th-century art.

Tilden's robot science became a search for radical simplicity.

The music's radical simplicity was a liberation and a challenge, and "Kind of Blue" emerged with a tentative, searching tone that's also immensely romantic.

Both were concerned with the radical simplicity of geometric forms as the primary artistic content, expressed in graphics, sculpture and architecture.

They're stories about how twisted and unruly the bonds of family can be, despite the radical simplicity of the family tree.