Samuel Bak

To Become a King

   
To Become a King
  • 2011
  • Oil on canvas
  • 30 × 30 inches(76 × 76 cm)

  • Signed lower left: BAK

  • And who would want to become a King or a leader?
    The entire world is in disarray.
    A shrouded pawn and a decapitated pawn look on as a pawn emerges from a stone shell and small, whole, unfettered pawn looks on.

    All that is offered with an engraved form of the King's crown.
    It is precariously above a mass of fragments including an arrow to the heart of the matter.

    The clouds have turned to stone as a reminder of Bak's reference to the smoke of the crematorium that turned to stone or the destruction of the atmosphere and the planet.

    Who would want to a be a King?

    Bernard H. Pucker, BAK a Day, December 31, 2021

  • Themes:  Chess Dice

Exhibitions

Your Move . New Paintings by SAMUEL BAK 2012 Boston, MA

Literature

Your Move . New Paintings by SAMUEL BAK Theodore K. Rabb 2012 Boston, MA, p. 31, ill.

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