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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.
"'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations."
To Robert Koehler in Daily Variety, the animation "is a curious hodgepodge of awkward human movement, tired nature effects and fine painterly backgrounds and detail work."
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.
No longer the wild and visionary improviser, Soutine now apprenticed himself to the great painterly painters of the past: Courbet, Chardin, and Rembrandt.