by Clare Finn | Nov 18, 2021 | Visual Arts
Maybe you have been fortunate enough to see a rhinoceros in the flesh, running at full tilt with a speed and agility that defies its bulk. They carry with them the aura of the African plains and the jungles of India and you know you have been privileged to see one....
by Rick Jones | Oct 26, 2021 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
At the National Liberal Club last week, the Critics’ Circle presented the opera singer Dame Janet Baker with the Rosebowl Award for “Distinguished Service to Art”. The vote for this most endearing of prime donne had been cast in 2019 but certain world...
by Rick Jones | Jul 21, 2021 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts
On Wednesday 14 July 2021, towards the end of the morning, the Critics’ Circle helped to get the wheels of live social intercourse moving again when fifty members arrived for luncheon at the National Liberal Club. The guest of honour was novelist and playwright...
by Clare Finn | May 31, 2021 | Visual Arts
Reacting against academic art and the classical tenets on which it is based, Dubuffet sought meaning in overlooked, base matter and the forgotten in society. Born in 1901 in Le Havre, he decided early he wanted to become an artist. He attended night classes in life...
by Rick Jones | May 15, 2021 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
Every year since 1988, the Critics’ Circle has voted for a single leading artist to receive an engraved crystal Rosebowl in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the arts. The first recipient was Sir Peter Hall, Director of the National Theatre and...
by Clare Finn | Apr 7, 2021 | Uncategorized, Visual Arts
For those coming across the work of the British painter, Mary Newcomb, for the first time her paintings may look naïve. Her proportions seem wrong. Her fore- and backgrounds come across as being amorphous, all on one plane. She seems not to use perspective. But there...
