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...CARROLL CLOAR, a Southern painter who never studied painting, aptly describes the budding spirit of the young artist: "At first it was only cowboys, then it was baseball and football players. Finally I drew a cowgirl...
...William Faulkner had made Gavin Stevens an artist instead of a lawyer, chances are the Mississippi novelist's folksy philosopher would have been just about the spitting image of Carroll Cloar. As it is, Cloar never made it into print, but with the retrospective of his works currently making the rounds of nine Southern cities, he has clearly added a colorful chapter of his own to the legendary South (see color page...
...CARROLL CLOAR-Alan. 766 Madison Ave. at 66th. "The hypersensitive stillness at twilight is broken now and then by sounds that ride in from far off." Faulkner? No, Carroll Cloar, writing about what he paints. Faulkner's South is Mississippi, Cloar's Arkansas, but they are much the same: both are remembered through a homely yet sinister realism. Eighteen temperas. Through March...
...moody man ("I always look sad in photographs"), Cloar took as his subject his own kind of people, who lived in such places as Calico Rock, Ash Flat and Evening Shade. "The family album," he has said, "was my research." Working in bright tempera because "it responds to me better," he painted everything from the Baptist Sunday school he had attended, to a memory called "The Lightning That Struck Rufo Barcliff it killed him." By last week, as his latest one-man show was being put together at Manhattan's Alan Gallery, his hand was surer than ever...
Laconic Carroll Cloar tells simple tales of life beneath a sky he sees as both acid blue and searingly hot. "Behind some grass," says he of a painting called The Ambush, "there's a girl. She's kind of a plain Jane. Well, she's waiting for the boy coming down the gravel road. And she's going to get him." Simple? Cloar's scenes-a traveler silhouetted starkly against the sky, three farmers talking hopefully of the spring, two men wandering down a ghostly moonlit road past a giant sign saying, JESUS SAVES-happen...