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The article examines the color palette of artistic images of V.V. Mayakovsky’s poem “A Cloud in Pants”. The unusual nature of the storyline is emphasized by the intensification or depletion of light contrasts between its constituent parts and events. Mayakovsky himself was an artist and treated poetry as painting a picture, expressing in words the bright color shades of the created images. In our opinion, the theme of unrequited love for Mary, central to the poem, develops into a universal tragedy with its expression of red and black, burning and charred, bloody and dead. Sublime love is replaced by defiled, corrupt, lustful, “beastly” love, like light and darkness, sun and night with its own unique color scheme and retouching. In search of “loud” characters, the author turns to the Gospel, which he denounces with the passion of a rejected man, turning him into a revolutionary and a nihilist. The hero’s internal struggle, unnoticed and unheard by God, is clearly conveyed by the halftones of red, white and black. This is evidenced by such lexemes as “blood”, “meat”, “wine”, “sky”, “evening”, “dirty”, “cloud”, “cloud”, “rain”, “night” and so on.