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Samuel Bak-Above and Below-Judaica fine art oil Painting Reproduction

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This is a Museum quality, hand painted oil reproduction, painting of "Above and Below "

Above and Below presents pawns with wings on a landscape divided by a fragment of a chessboard. The metal wings would encumber the pawn's flight yet the blue pawn hovers above; the white winged pawn is earth bound. Life and Death; Tikkun and Destruction and Evil; Hope and Despair. These contrasting interpretations come to mind.

How do we negotiate through these memories of a past and pretend to know how to respond when confronted by a most uncertain future. If the past is to be our teacher, we must ask what have we as humankind learned? Can we live on earth together in peace? Can we dream together of a universe where our actions will produce reconciliation and respect, or will we be cursed to repeat – on an even grander scale – the travesties of our predecessors?

Samuel Bak’s paintings are well known to Holocaust educators. Examples are found on the covers of books produced by Facing History and Ourselves, David Roskies’ Against the Apocalypse, Geoffrey Hartmann’s Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory, and several dozen books and catalogues which deal directly with Bak’s barren and thought-provoking landscapes. To some his work is a variant of surrealism, with an exquisite treatment of the canvas’ surface. For others his work is metaphor and symbol, dealing with the legacies of World War II, the Twentieth Century, and the Holocaust. Those who are interested in theology see his work as a visual Midrash, focusing on the problem of God and Jewish identity in the aftermath of the Shoah. What may be the case is that Samuel Bak’s paintings may be both about himself, the rest of humanity, and his own and our wrestling with a God that was silent for most of the Twentieth century.

Artist: Samuel Bak- (Notice minor changes not to infringe artist's copyright)

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