The dissertation is devoted to the study of the role of color and light, in particular, their symbolic meaning in the context of the search for national style. The questions of the historical and cultural context, the genesis of color and light, the issues of symbolics, semiotics, iconology, stylistic and compositional characteristics, typology, systematization of the works of Ukrainian artists of the first third XX century, as an artistic, historical and cultural phenomenon are revealed. The study of the historical and cultural heritage of the fine arts of this era is carried out due to the need to return from oblivion a significant layer of the national Ukrainian culture, its understanding and preservation.
A characteristic feature of art at the beginning of the XX century was the active creation of a new modern pictorial language, based on the revived achievements of the past, as well as the latest Western European trends in painting. The combination of the latest painting methods of modernism with the symbolic system of Ukrainian folk culture made it possible to create a unique and distinctive art of the early XX century. In the Ukrainian art of this period, there were a large number of artistic directions. Each artist interpreted the concept of "national style" in his own way, finding for himself a special fulcrum in his work. But each of the artists on the way of their creativity used two most important elements of painting - color and light, using their symbolic properties, which helped them create works filled with deep meaning, spiritual, philosophical and aesthetic sound. The study of the evolutionary development of the role of color and light in world art, in the theory of art, identification of the sources of Ukrainian colorism, analysis of the characteristic features of the main artistic directions of Ukrainian painting of the early twentieth century made it possible to comprehensively analyze the role of color and light, to reveal the symbolics of the color of paintings in the context of the search for a national Ukrainian style.
The study of the historiography of the work gave grounds to assert that in modern art criticism, the problem of the symbolic sound of color and light in Ukrainian painting of the first third of the XX century has not yet been systematically covered in scientific literature. All this determines the relevance of this professional work.
The object of research is color and light in Ukrainian painting of the first third of the twentieth century, and the subject is the symbolic meaning of color and light in Ukrainian painting of the first third of the twentieth century.
The dissertation examines the role of color and light, their symbolic meaning in Ukrainian painting of the first third of the twentieth century in the context of the search for a national style. The work consists of an introduction, three chapters, a conclusion, a list of sources and applications used (an album of illustrations, photographs, the text of the manuscript).
