Painting and Literature Mutual Influence in Mykhaylo Kotsiubynsky’s Oeuvres

The article focuses upon the system of colors that could be shaped via analysis of the prose by M. Kotsiubynsky. Colors which the writer used in his oeuvres are shown in its correlations with the underlying ideas of the prose. These correlations are realized via using of contrasting colors.For more than a century and a half, the literary work of M. Kotsiubinsky has been attracted attention of many scholars. After all, the author still is a point of interest for researchers because of diversity of topics and literary trends which synthesized the writer’s creativity. It has caused emergence of different, and, therefore, often opposite, interpretations. M. Kotsiubynsky’s creative work has become the object of research for many scholars, such as S. Efremov, M. Zerov, A. Muzychko, A. Shamray, O. Chernenko, Y. Kuznetsov, V. Ageeva, M. Kotsiubynska, Y. Polishchuk, etc.The relevance of the research is that in our time there is no concrete and unified view on certain issues of the artist’s creativity. Therefore, there are different perspectives and theories. In our time M. Kotsiubinsky’s creative work needs a new re-reading.A characteristic feature of the writer’s work is the inherent traits of impressionism. The subject of interest for M. Kotsiubinsky was that one could reproduce the real course of a hero’s mental processes, his or her personality, mood, impressions with the help of color, sound impressions. That is, verbal paints in prose works by M. Kotsiubinsky act as imaginative and expressive means capable to influence the creative and figurative perception of the canvas.The color palette in the writer’s works was not limited to spectral colors. The author used warm and cold shades depending on its psychological impact on hero’s mind. As a master of psychological analysis, M. Kotsiubynsky accurately selected one or another color in a verbal canvas, and color, in turn, fulfilled the relevant role of influence on reader, providing positive or negative expression.Thus, the study of the artist’s style is impossible without taking into account the range of associations, those expressive means that flow from the related arts in which the artist is realized. M. Kotsiubynsky deeply grasped the means of other arts, because he clearly understood it.