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If Davis was losing interest in the tricky harmonies of bop, he was acquiring a more painterly, and no less modernist, approach to sound.
But the following decade, even this gave way to works of pure nonrepresentational electricity, so bursting and swooping they make you want to use words like "painterly" and "gestural"--oxymoronically, they seem to be a kind of Abstract Expressionism built from little, carefully scissored bits of magazine photographs.
The painterly impact of the “burnt sienna” glows from the arcaded Gothic Palazzo Pubblico opposite, with its splendid 102-m- (335-ft-) high Torre del Mangia (climb to its first tier at 88 m [288 ft] for a magnificent view of the city and countryside beyond).
On the other hand, the film is said to look great--"magnificent in the painterly way Mr. Lynch pioneered," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.
The flags and the targets and the rest are, like the haystacks, simply subject matter for painterly treatment.