Baks styles and influences:
-The possibility of repair, the repair of a broken world, the Tikkun olam (a Hebrew phrase that means "repairing the world.), is an important meaning contained in many of his still life works.
-Bak's childhood frustration with the story of Genesis, and his admiration for the genius of Michelangelo, blend in his post-Holocaust visiting of this theme.
-Still lifes—in times in which life is never still, never sufficiently protected, nor granted to everyone—attracted him as metaphors full of symbolic implications.
-Chess as a theme of life has always fascinated Bak. In the DP camps and in Israel, he often played chess with his stepfather Markusha. Underground II, 1997, portrays chess pieces in a sunken, subterranean evocation of the Vilna ghetto.
-A solitary boy can also be seen in his works. The boy represents his murdered childhood friend, Samek Epstein, and the memory of himself as a child during the Holocaust.
He speaks about what are deemed to be the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust, though he has hesitated to limit the boundaries of his art to the post-Holocaust genre. He created a visual language to remind the world of its most desperate moments.
The images below mirror the broken emotion of Bak's past due to the dull colours used and the distorted effects which he paints with. The images have many connotations of Judaism and the Holocaust hidden within them which shows his recognition of his religion and what he has been through:
The four images below are a collection called 'Elegy for childhoods'. These images show Bak's damaged child hood and like his other paintings have an eery and chilling feel to them:
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