## RADIO — STYLE.

David Burliuk is the inventor and explorer of the RADIO-STYLE, the one and only style of our epoch. In America, the earth's greatest country, there has already been created some work after this style. The artist has painted a number of such pictures, and during that time he has completely refrained from food, thereby reducing 63 pounds.

## AMERICA THE GREAT.

Time has ripened to recognize the fact that a country must have ART worthy of its greatness. Great America is worthy of the GREAT NEW ART. THE NEW ART should be the possession of every home. One should always look at the pictures of the great contemporaries.

Old Art — is as international, as history is. Its basis, its inferences — every vestige of instructive and educational matter — belongs to all.

## ART OF TODAY.

On the tree of Great America grow leaves and flowers. The thin threads of their aroma fill the nostrils of the angels that have spread their wings amid the clouds of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

## THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD'S ESTHETICS.

The Radio-Epoch — is an epoch of Cosmopolitism. The voice of a song sung in Chicago is now heard in Australia and in the Steppes of Russia. The moment is not far distant when all the inhabitants of the earth will listen all at once to the declamations of the GREAT.

The President of ESTHETICS of all the world has already been elected. But he himself is not yet aware of it. Perhaps — it is you — you who are reading these lines? A palace of transcendent beauty is already prepared for you.

Life has no meaning when one lives only for the sake of meat cutlets and the meager rewards of material success. Life assumes a meaning then, and only then, when the soul enters into the possibility of new art.

## LIFE — REMINISCENCE.

Even to science, the vault of heaven, seen thru a telescope — is somewhat metaphysical, superexisting, abstract. The spectator knows the position of a star in a given order — supposing 5, when in life, in reality, it is passing thru 8.

To our all-embracing mind, this metaphysical law is related to everything that throbs, moves and revolves about us.

In like manner is the impression of a man walking: for the onlooker there exists the position 3, when in reality he is passing thru 41/2.

Man's organism embraces the world thru its senses.

The hypothesis of the five senses is incorrect — there are more.

When Rimbaud spoke about the color of the vowels, he pointed out that sound and light are manifestations of one and the same order — possessing, however different degrees of vibration.

A great thought of universal significance can, sometimes be expressed in a single line.

Simplicity of form, however, does not imply inept substance.

Emerson expresses himself very originally and beautifully when he called Humboldt the voice (mute to him) of the stones.

Photo A. Slawkow

DAVID BURLIUK

(oil). 1925.

HARLEM RIVER

(Radio-Style).

The epoch that preceded the present — RADIO AGE — was an era of destruction.

The kinetic phase destroys the static forms.

The preceding epoch — now finished — the epoch of electricity — was the Apocalypse of this — the dynamic age.

As in nature thus in life the idea of form is continually destroyed by motion — Time — the very process of life.

Music depicts Time through the images of sound.

Painting is nothing but colored Space.

To listen to music we need Time.

To see a painting — frequently only a moment is sufficient.

DAVID BURLIUK

Drawing 1925

DYCKMAN - FERRY

(Radio-Style).

(Prolonging of the lines of actually existing objects).

## REPRODUCTION OF ABSTRACT OBJECTS.

(Super-Nature)

There are physical and metaphysical objects

Between the two "real" — physical — sky-scrapers there exists the third, the metaphysical, created at the intersection of the mentally prolonged surfaces of the "real" structure. Between the two living beings there is always the third — abstract, metaphysical.

Super-nature, metaphysical constructions — creations of "pure reason", are projected in imagination by prolonging the lines and surfaces of actually existing objects. Edgar Allan Poe and Flannarion existed in reality, but live now only metaphysically.

**Footnote:** Since people do not order their portraits from me I paint the portraits of demons, for whom I keep an empty chair in my studio.
Address: D. Burliuk, 2116 Harrison Ave. (near Hall of Fame N. Y. University), Tel. Sedgwick 1124.

Yesterday is the shadow of to-day.

Yet the yesterdays appear sooner than the present has time to disappear.

DAVID BURLIUK

(oil). 1926.

ELECTRIC STATION

(Radio-Style).

One can paint a bottle of whiskey on the table; but one can also portray — a bottle of whiskey which is no longer there. The myth of the so-called soul is a reality of our RADIO AGE.

Everything — from the tiny bug to a tea-spoon — has its specific soul. The whiskey bottle that was on the table is there still forever, but abstract.

Consciousness is the possession not only of man, the insignificant particle of creation, but of Mother Nature as well.