{"id":116986,"date":"2023-03-17T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=116986"},"modified":"2023-03-17T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:06:37","slug":"flush-it-friday-samuel-bak-appreciation-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/flush-it-friday-samuel-bak-appreciation-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Flush it Friday: Samuel Bak Appreciation Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
Y’all ever find an amazing artwork online and subsequently a) are unable to find a source for who made it, and b) forget what exactly it looked like? (Might just be an owl thing, we’re wise <\/em>[<\/strong>Arguable. ~Roldy]<\/strong> not smart!) I dug around for a bit recently looking for a painting I vaguely remember having a World War aesthetic and a host of disfigured faces. I somehow managed to stumble on what I’d lost\u2014the haunting and tragic works of Samuel Bak<\/strong>, a Lithuanian-American painter who survived the Holocaust and later emigrated to the U.S. The painting in question is called\u00a0The Family<\/em> (1974), and knowing a bit more about his past, it takes on an even more harrowing aspect:<\/p>\n