They are going where no banker has gone before, into the primordial landscape of Russian private finance.

In the case of "Source," a cloud darkens the upper third of the canvas and also rises from a lake that interrupts an otherwise bleak, seemingly primordial landscape.

Surrounded by a fantastic panoply of objects, plants, animals, primordial landscapes or hallucinatory miniature scenes, she's a magical personification of nature and intuitive vision (Johnson).

"Territory" here takes on a darker connotation, of animals defending their turf or intruders altering pristine, primordial landscapes.

They describe a primordial landscape peopled by men and women often dressed only in leather caps, with bows slung across their chests, their arms bound in what looks like a sack.

This biography depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has received an absolute connection to the divine truth.

But here's the beauty of Botswana: we are by ourselves, exploring this primordial African landscape.

This is Genesis, the primordial landscape of No Country for Old Men.

Ms. Adams, based in Washington state, paints hyper-romantic pictures of broad, primordial landscapes under monumental masses of dramatically luminous cumulous clouds.

In many of Ms. Bourgeois's drawings from around 1950, lines repeatedly brushed in black ink create fields resembling hair or primordial landscapes.