The Harlem River. Inwood Park - Russian impressionism museum
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The Harlem River. Inwood Park, 1925

David Davidovich Burliuk

Oil on canvas
71X91.5

Collection of Maya and Anatoly Bekkerman, New York

In September 1922, David Burliuk moved with his family to America. New York largely corresponded to David Burliuk's "futuristic interest" in the latest technologies and modernization of lifestyle. Thanks to his friends, he quickly finds a patron, a colorful character of New York Bohemia Robert Chanler. Having bought several paintings from Burliuk and given him an order to design a theatrical production, Chanler created conditions for the artist to be approved in the artistic environment of America. However, everything that David Burliuk demonstrated to the American public was not new for it. The artist felt the need to develop his original manner. So, radio style appeared. The first work that was painted in a new manner was ”The Harlem River. Inwood Park”. It was an artist’s attempt to convey the atmosphere of the "radio era", allowing the sounds of the song, performed in Chicago, to reach Australia and the Russian steppes". Or, as stated by Burliuk himself, it was "an abstract embodiment of each object, made up of magnetic waves emitted by any real object." In other words, Burliuk presented his version of Italian futurism. Only now the artist undertook to show not the dynamics of the object, but demonstrated the movement of invisible to the human eye sound waves that came from literally every object. In the painting "The Harlem River" the vibration of a sound is conveyed by colored circles, which the artist depicts around the crowns of trees by means of a thin brush. Almost all radio paintings Burliuk wrote in Bronx, on the quays of Harlem, where he lived with his family.

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