Samuel Bak

Disguise

   
Disguise
  • 2013
  • Oil on canvas
  • 12 18 × 12 18 inches(30 12 × 30 12 cm)

  • Signed lower left: BAK

  • So many identities to disguise.
    Am I a cup of Vilna fame, a bird or a metal bird whose wheels have fallen off, a tea pot about to pour you a cup of tea? And where am I? What am I expected to do?

    Just a few questions that arise from my many disguises!

    The master of questions has created an image of many questions. What reality would you select?
    Tea time as the height of civility. The cup and saucer of the murdered Vilna artist.
    The bird of escape that cannot fly. All contradictions.

    And only 12 x 12 inches! Do we all wander through life in multiple disguises?

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, August 10, 2022

  • Themes:  Cup Bird

Exhibitions

Told & Foretold . The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak 2014 Boston, MA

Literature

Told & Foretold . The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak Lawrence L. Langer 2014 Boston, MA, p. 19, ill.

Told & Foretold . The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak Lawrence L. Langer 2014 Boston, MA, p. 73, ill.

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