Samuel Bak

On a Road

   
On a Road
  • 2013
  • Oil on canvas
  • 24 18 × 20 18 inches(61 × 51 cm)

  • Signed lower left: BAK

  • On a Road… A very different Road from On the Road by Jack Kerouac 1957. Both, however, reflect the world that the creators were using as a source for their art.

    For Bak, the vehicle is an unbelievable Cup on wheels. A submerged cup is in the foreground with another cup on its side and another cup inside it. Finally, a monumental Cup as the base for the Cup of State - as a ship with the ropes of the rigging providing the connections to the leaves as sails.

    What a complex assemblage of images and textures!
    On a Road that speaks of a world that was and a world that is.

    Again with a cup as a container for Told and Foretold, the brilliance of Bak as interpreter and questioner of the human condition.

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, August 23, 2022

  • Themes:  Cup Figure Travel

Exhibitions

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

Literature

An Unimaginable Partnerschip Lawrence L. Langer 2022 Boston, MA, p. 367, ill.

Told & Foretold . The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak Lawrence L. Langer 2014 Boston, MA, p. 30, ill.

Told & Foretold . The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak Lawrence L. Langer 2014 Boston, MA, p. 40, ill.

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