The Bashkir State Art Museum named after Mikhail Nesterov
The oeuvre of David Burliuk is movable and changeable. He could paint realistic landscapes and in parallel develop his painting in the Cubo-futurist way. Thus, in the picture "Rainbow " the background — the image of the Garden of Eden – owes cubism its rigid geometric structure. However, the plot of the picture is close to the canvases of symbolists. Two nude women in the foreground are made in a deliberately decorative style; they embody the idea of harmonious extraterrestrial existence. The colors of Eden, created by Burliuk, are burning and the landscape nearly explodes with its colorful dynamics of the masses. Here the picturesque imagination of the author prevails over the logic of the correct construction – the artist seems not to notice how one of the girls literally steps on her neighbor's foot, and the peacock is shown on a hypertrophied scale. The peacock was a favorite motif in the oeuvre of a close friend of David Burliuk, Natalia Goncharova. She created a series of five artworks called "Artistic Possibilities about Peacock". In the title, the artist stressed that she was more interested in the pictorial research than in the object itself. So David Burliuk uses the image of Paradise as a space for creative experiment, where he easily combines stylistically diverse elements.