Either As Dark As Iron Or As Bright As Sunshine

There are light color coal ink, strong color coal ink, coal color coal ink and purecoal ink concerning the contemporary exploration of coal ink painting. The focus ofeach form presents the beauty of mystery and magnificence through the contrastbetween ink and color. Strong color coal ink, however wanders between the twoextremes: darkness with the strongest, and color with the most intense. Yi Tujing inhis eighties gained a reputation as the famous painter of flowers and birds not onlyin Hunan but also throughout the whole country, and contributed to the developmentof skills of strong color coal ink attributing to his visual feast combing the distinctcolor use and delicate touch.The paper explores the artistic features of Yi Tujing’s strong color coal ink offlowers and birds from three parts. First, it introduces Yi Tujing’s art and lifebackground, and his educational background as well; then the paper focuses on YiTujing’s artistic style analyzing his preferences on pens, color, composition andaesthetics; last it discusses the artistic value of strong color coal ink of Yi Tujingand his great impact on the development of art history in Hunan Province. Theextraordinary achievement of Yi Tujing with the Chinese Painting represents hispersonality charm of integrity, and he is greatly honored by Hunan people, the prideof Hunan art circle and even the pride of Chinese art circle.