Following his travels through Siberia, Burliuk lived in Japan from October 1920 to August 1922. During his time in Japan, mainly on the Bonin Islands, Burliuk continued to paint and organize exhibitions, working mainly in an impressionistic style. Similar to his landscapes of the Steppe, these impressionistic images “pulsate with energy generated by the interaction of millions of living particles.”[1]
While this period is often "brushed aside in western accounts as transitional, a brief interlude between Burliuk’s life in Russia and his resettlement in New York City. Japanese modernist art history, on the other hand, has attached much greater significance to his stay in Japan and to the enthusiastic critical reception that he received there—a reception which often eluded him over the next 45 years of his life."[2]
[1] Shkandrij, “The Steppe as Inspiration in David Burliuk’s Art.” Page 63.
[2] Holubizky, "David Burliuk in Japan." Futurism and After, 2008. Page 27.
