Summing up her achievement, Klaus Kertess wrote, «She transformed the gestural painterliness of Abstract Expressionism into a vocabulary so completely her own that it could become ours as well. (joanmitchellfoundation.org)
«Far from harmonizing the individual stripes by colour, Louis usually vibrates them, creating an illusion of painterliness in their optical flicker... [at times] they present the illusion of an almost corrugated surface, until the visible weave of the canvas tautens it, pulling out its creases» (J. Elderfield, Morris Louis, exh. (christies.com)
With painterliness, Mendes and cinematographer Conrad Hall present this moody tableau in what is a continuation of the picture's running homage to the images, themes, even favourite subjects of American painter Edward Hopper, such as an all - night diner in the middle of nowhere, an unevenly lit apartment, and silhouettes imprisoned in blocks of yellow light. (filmfreakcentral.net)