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...Masses and other left-wing magazines. His painted world was more amiable, with its fleshy, rosy girls in dance halls or promenading in Washington Square Park--a Brooklyn Fragonard whispering to a Hester Street Renoir. Sloan saw his people as part of a larger totality, the carnal and cozy body of the city itself, where even the searchlight on top of Madison Square Garden, he wrote, "was scratching the belly of the sky and tickling the building." He liked the roaring dynamism of the El, and in Election Night, 1907, he combined it with a flushed, disorderly crowd...
...poignant experience. Its humility masks a bizarre pride. What other artist could recoil from nature because its order exceeds that of his own art? How could he expect to rival nature? Did Mondrian envy God? Or perhaps he meant something less Luciferian: that nature, to the artist, is like carnal desire to the saint. It is a trap, a lower substitute for higher ecstasy, an occasion of sin. He knows it is beautiful, but he must still banish it from his art (as Plato urged the banishment of the poet from the ideal republic) because it provokes irrational thoughts...
Directed by Mira Nair '79, maker of "Mississippi Masala," "The Perez Family" is the best movie to come along this year. A luminous, carnal comedy about love, exile and the immigrant experience among Miami's Cubans, Nair's film is delightful as the blossoming spring...
Mirta Ibarra as Diego's neighbor Nancy, a feisty and sensual woman "of a certain age" with whom David has an affair, turns in the film's other great performance. Ibarra, whose character is reminiscent of Maria Rojo in "Danzon," is at once funny, carnal and moving...
...Hong Kong import directed by Michael Mak, purports to be an adaptation of a classic Ming Dynasty novel known as The Carnal Prayer Mat. Being unfamiliar with the novel, this reviewer is in no position to judge the faithfulness of Mak to his source. However, it would appear that the film makers are using the novel simply to lend respectability to soft-core porn...