Horse-lightning

"A horse-lightning" - typical futuristic painting filled with movement and dynamics. Heck, the name itself already ensures that the rest is not even dream. For futurists peculiar to objects images are certainly in motion (recall, for example, "Hospital train, speeding through the city" Gino Severini). In this case, Burliuk managed to grab the momentum. We see not just "an animal, one horse" – the motion before us in its purest form. By the way, another question, which definition is a metaphor. Whether a horse swift as lightning, or lightning is depicted as an animal? The lightning analogy reinforces the sector is bright yellow, which passes through the figure of the horse.

Note that David Burliuk repeatedly portrayed the horses, seeing them as the embodiment of movement and something genuine, present (and he dabbled with body art and sometimes draw a horse on my cheek). Here are just a few examples from the extensive "horse gallery":"Blue horse","The farmer and the horse","Gypsies with a horse","Carousel","Girl watering horse", "Strut"and many others.

"A horse-lightning" Burliuk demonstrates another method of making futurism recognizable. Traditionally, futuristic works, the picture fragmented into fragments, and used for this color is bright and contrasting. Catchy colors futurism inherited from Fauvism, and the desire to divide the picture into sectors, to recreate images using geometric shapes from cubism. So the painting "a Horse-lightning" can replace a short lecture on the theory of the avant-garde.

Author: Alain Esaulova