When is a Pear a Pear and a Cup a Cup? In the world according to Bak, these iconic images blend in and out of one another.
The Pear as the personal visual language of birth, life, destruction and death. The Cup as the ever available container of virtually every question of the meaning of existence. The saucer and the spoon make a “guest appearance” and remind the viewer of the young artist's visit to a mature artist's studio only to find the artist deported and killed and the painting of a cup, saucer and spoon abandoned on his easel. An invitation to the young artist to honor the elder artist by including these few objects in later works.
Fragments of the passing clouds are applied to the Pear form. An acknowledged relation between the object and the environment.
The past remains a part of the present. Memory can and should inform our Present and Future.
Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, September 2, 2022
Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History (Samuel Bak Museum)
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