The Semantics of the Color Experiment in Boris Poplavsky's Artistic Discourse

The purpose of this work is to define the semantics of coloratives in the artistic discourse of one of the brightest representatives of the first wave of Russian emigration, Boris Poplavsky. His work is a kind of aesthetic experiment, which is carried out at the level of form, content, and naturally poetic language. The subject area of the study is the lyrical texts of B.Y. Poplavsky, they are concentrated in comparison with the author's prose and have proper color nominations that expand the semantic halo of the author's artistic world. The analysis of the semantics of coloratives makes it possible to identify the stylistic dominants of Boris Poplavsky, to compare his writing style with a number of experimental artistic trends of the early twentieth century. The discursive nature of B.Y. Poplavsky's writing is deliberately associated with the expansion of the semantic boundaries of a literary work. The continuous sampling method is not the main one in the work, because the purpose of the article is not to concretize the statistics of the use of a particular color, but to identify the functional limits of the color palette of B. Poplavsky. This does not contradict scientific research, the content layer is the main one within the framework of cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, semiotics. The results of the work can be used in university practice, when studying the poetics of B.Y. Poplavsky's texts, determining the specifics of his artistic orientations. In our opinion, Boris Poplavsky's poetry is the most advantageous for illustrating the color significance, since his texts are focused on visual arts – surrealism, avant-garde, and modernism in general. The novelty of work in building a systematic and holistic hierarchy of color in Poplavsky. At the same time, it can be noted that the functional load of the coloratives is not uniform. We have identified such options as emotional-evaluative, nominative, axiological, receptive, and, of course, visual (figurative). Boris Poplavsky's poetic cosmos is verified due to color combinations, it is important that semantic expansion is not excluded.

Boris Poplavsky, lyrics, color vocabulary, color, semantics, artistic image, visual art, sense, reception, style