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« 2025. # 6 (186)

The Ethnology Notebooks. 2025. № 6 (186), 1552—1559

UDK 7.01:111.852:75(477)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

THE INFLUENCE OF HENRI BERGSON’S PHILOSOPHY ON THE FORMATION OF DAVID BURLIUK’S AESTHETIC PRINCIPLES

BONCHUK Roman

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1800-819X
  • Postgraduate of the department of
  • Art and Renovation
  • of Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian
  • National University,
  • 57, Shevchenko Str., 76000, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: megabonchuk13@gmail.com

Abstract. The influence of Henri Bergson’s philosophy on the formation of the aesthetic principles of David Burliuk as an important figure of Ukrainian modernism and futurism is investigated. It is found out how the concepts of vital impulse, intuition and duration are transformed into the poetics of color, rhythm and movement, defining the artistic act as a form of cognition. The artist’s painting, poetry and manifesto texts are analyzed, the mechanisms of transferring philosophical ideas into compositional strategies, the symbolism of color and temporal models of image are outlined. The main attention is paid to the interaction of the philosophy of life and avant-garde practices, the role of the synthesis of arts and the evolution of the author’s language from early Kyiv experiments to emigration «radio styles».

The problem of the continuity of the modernist paradigm in Ukrainian art of the 20th—21st centuries and its relevance for media-oriented practices is raised.

The aim is to clarify the mechanisms of transformation of the concepts of vital impulse, intuition and duration into the artist’s artistic language and to outline their role in the formation of avant-garde poetics of color, rhythm and movement.

Analysis and synthesis, comparative-historical and chronological methods were applied in compliance with the principle of historicism. It was established that Burliuk’s aesthetics forms a holistic model of creative evolution, in which the artistic act performs a cognitive function, and intermediality ensures the stability of the author’s system in the conditions of cultural transformations.

The results obtained deepen the understanding of the role of Bergsonian ideas in the formation of the Ukrainian avant-garde tradition and clarify Burliuk’s place in the European artistic process.

Keywords: philosophy of life, vital impulse, intuition, duration, creativity, modernism, David Burliuk, Henri Bergson, modernism, futurism, aesthetics.

Received 21.10.2025

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