Kuroda Seiki: Google Doodle celebrates Japanese painter

Japanese artist Seiki Kuroda features in today’s Google Doodle – with the artist featuring on the Doodle to mark what would be his 156th birthday.

Kuroda was an influential artist who’s known as the father of Western-style paintings in Japan – as well as Western art theory in his teachings.

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The painter was influential during the 19th and early 20th century – and is widely considered to be on Japan’s greatest artists to this day.

Who was Seiki Kuroda?

Kuroda was born on 9 August 1866 in Takamibaba, Satsuma Domain. The son of a samurai of the Shimazu clan, he was adopted as his uncle’s heir at birth and moved to his estate in Tokyo.

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After pursing studying in Paris, where he was to study law in 1886 at the age of 18, he met the painters Yamamoto Hosui and Fuji Masazo, as well as art dealer Tadamasa Hayashi, and they convinced him to pursue painting full time.

It was during his time in Paris that he mastered Western styles bringing back to Japan a painting called “Morning Toilette”, which went on to become the first nude painting to be publicly exhibited in Japan.