Samuel Bak

Key-Power

   
Key-Power
  • 2019
  • Oil on canvas
  • 15 18 × 30 inches(38 12 × 76 cm)

  • Signed and dated lower left: BAK 19

  • The Key to Power is the willingness to disregard any concern for human life. Witness the wanton destruction of the people and property of Ukraine.
    There are so many examples from the World Wars and the inclusion of civilians and not military property.
    It is all fair or unfair game.

    The key cannon belches flames and smoke. The vertical key provides the fitting in the space of the Hebrew letter "shin". It appears on the Mezzuzah as the abbreviation for Almighty- Shaddai.
    The floating broken chimney drops cannon balls.

    The landscape is peopled with directional arrows, all pointed in opposite directions. The confusion of life and choices combined with the sheer luck of survival.

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, June 2, 2022

  • Themes:  Key Smoke Figure

Literature

FIGURING OUT . Paintings by Samuel Bak 2017-2022 Lawrence L. Langer, Andrew Meyers 2022 Boston, MA, p. 26, 94-95, ill.

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