Samuel Bak

A Knight of the Intifada

   
A Knight of the Intifada
  • 2011
  • Oil on canvas
  • 30 × 30 inches(76 × 76 cm)

  • Signed lower left: BAK

  • Chess as a metaphor for war and conflict.
    Once again, the pawns are the combatants in this brilliantly colored battle.
    The ghost of the pawn on the torn sheet assailed by the stone of anger and discontent.
    Will this conflict ever end or is war and destruction the way past and forward.

    Squares of the chess board are scattered about.
    The base for the knight as well as a connector for the ghostly pawn.
    No complete chessboard is available.

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, December 18, 2021

  • Themes:  Chess

Exhibitions

Your Move . New Paintings by SAMUEL BAK 2012 Boston, MA

Literature

Your Move . New Paintings by SAMUEL BAK Theodore K. Rabb 2012 Boston, MA, p. 13, ill.

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