RADIO — STYLE.

David BuriIiuk 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 great-ness. 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 conte-poraries.

Old Art — is as international, as history is. Its basis, its inferences — every vestige of instructive and educational matter — be-longs 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 Yester-
day, Today and Tomorrow.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD'S
ESTHETICS.

The Radio-Epoch — is an epoch of Cosmo-
politism. 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 him-
self 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 re-
wards 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 metaphys-
ical, 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 metaphys-
ical 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 poke 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 vib-
ration.

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. Sławkow

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

DYCKMAN - FERRY

(Radio-Style).

(Prolonging of the lines of actually existing objects).

Drawing 1925

REPRODUCTION OF ABSTRACT
OBJECTS.

(Super-Nature)

There are physical and metaphysical objects

Between the two "real" — physical — sky-
scrapers there exists the third, the metaphys-
ical, 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 sur-
faces of actually existing objects. Edgar
Allan Poe and Flammarion existed in reality,
but live now only metaphysically.

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 whis-
key 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.

**Footnote:** Since people do not order their por-
traits from me I paint the portraits of demons, for
whom I keep an empty chair in my studio.
Address: D. BuriIiuk, 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).