Samuel Bak is a renowned artist whose works have been exhibited in museums worldwide. In Painted in Words artist Samuel Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the story of his life-as a child in Nazi-occupied Vilna, as a youth in European refugee camps, and as a maturing artist in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Lovingly, he evokes his departed parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, along with their household employees, to create a vital gallery of dramatic, lyrical, epic, and sometimes absurd ...
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Samuel Bak is a renowned artist whose works have been exhibited in museums worldwide. In Painted in Words artist Samuel Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the story of his life-as a child in Nazi-occupied Vilna, as a youth in European refugee camps, and as a maturing artist in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Lovingly, he evokes his departed parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, along with their household employees, to create a vital gallery of dramatic, lyrical, epic, and sometimes absurd heroes. With gently humor, the child prodigy of the faraway past and the accomplished artist of today engage in a spirited dialogue from which emerges a self-portrait of the "Artist as a Young-and middle-aged and aging-Survivor.
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