1912
oil on canvas
68,8 х 65

The most radical avant-garde painting method in the work of M.F. Larionov is luchism. This movement's typical manner of painting using radiant brushstrokes was to a large extent the result of rethinking the expressive devices of Italian futurists. In his theoretical research in respect to the "radiant method", Larionov treats the idea of objectless image more consistently than in painting practices: "The doctrine of radiance. Radiation of reflected light. The form that takes shape when rays from different objects cross and that is singled out by the will of an artist… Conveyance of the sensation of the infinite, the supertemporal. Colourful constructs according to the laws of painting (texture, colour)… It is not the objects themselves that we see, but the beams of rays that emanate from them, which are shown in the picture with colour lines." The subject of image in the radiants' work is reduced to a sign, but with shapes in painting preserved. The picture features the cock's image simultaneously, i.e., in different phases of movement.