Peasant woman with a goat 

David Burliuk’s small oil painting, Peasant Woman with a Goat, presents a vibrant, tactile surface teeming with thickly applied paint. The composition, though representational, leans towards abstraction, dissolving into a sea of dynamic brushstrokes. Burliuk's colour palette—intense blues, greens, reds and browns—creates a lively contrast that animates the scene. The figures of the woman and goat are rendered with simplified forms, their outlines blurred by the impasto technique, which invites us to see beyond the surface and consider its underlying structure. This work reflects the artist's avant-garde sensibility and his rejection of traditional academic styles. Burliuk, known as the "father of Russian Futurism", uses the painting's materiality to challenge fixed notions of representation. The painting becomes an assertion of the artist's presence through the gestural application of paint, pushing the boundaries of what painting could be, and engaging with new ways of perceiving reality through dynamic form. The textured surface and bold colour harmonies are not merely decorative, but act as signs of modern artistic expression.