Samuel Bak

Letting Go

Letting Go

2013
Oil on canvas
12 ¹⁄₈ × 16 ¹⁄₈ inches(30 ¹⁄₂ × 41 cm)
Signed lower right: BAK
How do we truly let go?
When the curtain of life falls, is it truly over? Are we capable of letting go?

Using the language of metaphor, the beautiful cup and saucer fragments are elegantly distributed across the benign landscape.

Often the cup was filled and now is unable to hold any liquid. Painting the texture and color of the beautiful porcelain cup, now broken, makes the letting go even more poignant.

The cup bares the pattern of bullet marks. The attack on tea time and the height of civility. And yet history is filled with brutality and atrocity!

Why must we be forced to let go?

Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, August 19, 2022
Themes: Cup

Bookmark Forget

Exhibitions

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

Literature

BAK LOOKS BACK . Artist curated collection: 1946 - 2023 Samuel Bak 2023 Boston, MA, p. 28., ill.

An Unimaginable Partnerschip Lawrence L. Langer 2022 Boston, MA, p. 371, ill.

Told & Foretold . The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak Lawrence L. Langer 2014 Boston, MA, p. 37, ill.

Told & Foretold . The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak Lawrence L. Langer 2014 Boston, MA, p. 9, ill.

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