Since when is a Still Life decorated by a Landscape. In fact, these are two distinct categories of painting. However, with Bak there are no rules or limitations to his creative genius.
The objects for this Still Life are not his usual bottle, chalice and pear, rather the abandoned house and the dead tree are placed in concrete slabs and covered with an assemblage of branches and stones as well as fabric. The cut off tree trunk sits on a book. Nearby a chair on its side. In the foreground an “X” symbolizing X'ing out or death.
In fact, Nature Morte is French for Still Life. Nature Dead.
The mixture of the floating fabric and occasional clouds that has been turned to stone.
As if the landscape architect of History has made their plans for a landscaped Still Life visual.
If only you owned your own Landscaping Company in the world according to Bak… Can you image how many war torn landscapes you could tend to? Rwanda or Somalia or Ukraine, to name a few, since the Holocaust and World War II.
Not only would you have to tend to the grass, bushes and trees but also to the destroyed homes, uprooted trees and displaced boulders. In addition to the ashes of the chimneys that have turned to stone, you will discover the collated and pieced together house, as well as the turned over chair.
The window draperies are used to tie parts together and add movement to an otherwise very still life. No movement. No people. Tis indeed STILL!
This scene is positioned atop a weird foundation including a discarded book. So many parts to this Landscape that it would truly need a master gardener to restore any calm or order.
The X indicates that the entire scene has been Xed out.
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