Samuel Bak

Jacob's Latest

   
Jacob's Latest
  • 2019-2020
  • Oil on linen
  • 48 18 × 36 18 inches(122 × 91 12 cm)

  • Signed and dated lower right: BAK 19/20

  • Jacob of old is keeping up. Seated with his “MacBook Air” adjacent to a selection of ladders to enable the deconstructed angels to ascend and descend on their endless mission as messengers…

    On the altar, a small tin can with new growth. Behind the emptied houses of the destroyed world of the present eg Ukraine and the Vilna of the past.

    Above, an assemblage of angels wings in rainbow colors and floating boulders. Clearly a world that has been shaken up!

    Jacob, the founder of the people of Israel, is trying to keep up. Why? Somehow his and our Past remains the Present.

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, June 17, 2022

  • Themes:  Tree Tool Figure Symbol/Letter Ladder

Literature

FIGURING OUT . Paintings by Samuel Bak 2017-2022 Lawrence L. Langer, Andrew Meyers 2022 Boston, MA, p. 15, 59, ill.

An Unimaginable Partnerschip Lawrence L. Langer 2022 Boston, MA, p. 478, ill.

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