“I am both a poet and an artist...” (David Burliuk) (рart one)

The purpose of the study is to analyze the pictorial and poetic strategies of David Burliuk, one of the founders and active participants of the avant-garde processes of the early twentieth century in Russia, to identify the related nature of artistic techniques that resonated in his visual and poetic practice, to trace the proximity of their figurative and semantic functions within the framework of various types of art, which he addressed in his work. The result of the work was an analytical awareness of the kinship and common strategies of the artist and poet Burliuk in the process of the birth and creation of new art of the twentieth century. It is shown that the features and tactics of the artistic movements of the avantgarde of the early twentieth century — impressionism, post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cezannism, cubism, futurism and cubofuturism, usually actualized in relation to the phenomena of visual art, in Burliuk’s work found explication and full realization at the level of verbal and poetic text. It is demonstrated that the complex nature of the artist’s worldview left its mark not only on Burliuk’s paintings, but also colored his poems, revealing in the poetic texts of the author an impressionist, cezannist, cubist, futurist, cubofuturist. A comparative analysis of Burliuk’s paintings and poetic “opuses” revealed that a number of Burliuk's handpainted canvases, created in the manner of Impressionism, Cezanne or Cubism, find almost exact analogues in his poetry. As a result of the comparative analysis, it was revealed what means and techniques the artist transferred to poetic activity, what features of the pictorial phenomenon were reflected in his poetry, what role they assumed in the framework of various types of art. It shows how masterfully Burliuk realized two different hypostases of an artistic personality, how easily he was able to combine creative freedom at the level of form and content, how organically he found ways to implement avant-garde diffusion between different ways of creative worldview.