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By the words of his contemporaries, he generated an unbelievable energy in all spheres of life, and exspesially in New Art Creation. V. Mayakovsky, M. Matiushin, K. Malevich and many other members of The Movement were his friends and participated in his "happenings". Later, something about 1920th some "more serious" comrades, like M. Matiushin, K. Malevich & others, called him "art hooligan". 

Burliuk's family was descended from wealthy Ukrainian peasants, and he traveled a great deal through the towns of the Ukraine. He first visited the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow when he was fifteen and greatly admired the prominent Russian painters Shishkin, Kuindzhi, Repin, and Serov, who all influenced his early work. 

About 1904, he met the young Kazimir Malevich, who also admired Shishkin and Repin, but later both Malevich and Burliuk would reject this art. 

This dramatic change was typical of that period, especially when seen in the light of the growing revolutionary movements. Everything from Raphael to Repin was questioned and discarded, and in came the "new art of wild beauty." 

Burliuk learned European art in Munich and Paris and on his return to Russia in 1904 he "worked madly." He wrote at that time: 

"This time my painting is marked by a despairing realism. Every shoot, every twig, every blade of grass - everything is depicted in detail. As regards color, I try to arrange it in such a way that from a distance it agrees completely with life."