Top Quality Art - Plum Garden

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by Kuroda Seiki

Title

Top Quality Art - Plum Garden

Artist

Kuroda Seiki

Medium

Painting - Oil On Wood

Description

【KURODA SEIKI】
「Plum Garden」
（Top Quality Image Edition）

「梅林」 （1924）【最高画質版】


【Kuroda Seiki】
(黒田 清輝, June 29, 1866 – July 15, 1924) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter and teacher, noted for bringing Western theories about art to a wide Japanese audience. He was among the leaders of the yōga (or Western-style) movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. His real name was Kuroda Kiyoteru, which uses an alternate pronunciation of the Chinese characters.

Few artists have influenced Japanese art as much as Kuroda. As a painter, he was among the first to introduce Western-style paintings to a broad Japanese audience. As a teacher, he taught many young artists the lessons that he himself had learned in Paris; among his students were painters like Wada Eisaku, who were to become among the preeminent Japanese painters of their generation. Many students also followed Kuroda in choosing to study in Paris, leading to a greater awareness of broader trends in Western art on the part of many Japanese artists in the twentieth century; a number of these, such as Asai Chū, even went as far as going to Grez-sur-Loing for inspiration.

Perhaps Kuroda's greatest contribution to Japanese culture, however, was the acceptance of Western-style painting he fostered on the part of the Japanese public. Despite their initial reluctance, he was able to convince them to accept the validity of the nude figure as a subject for art. This, coupled with the honors bestowed upon him later in his life, bespeak a broader understanding by the Japanese people, and by their government, as to the importance of yōga in their culture.


【黒田 清輝】（KURODA SEIKI / くろだ せいき）
1866年8月9日（慶応2年6月29日） - 1924年（大正13年）7月15日）
日本の洋画家、政治家。位階は従三位。勲等は勲二等。爵位は子爵。通称は新太郎（しんたろう）。名の清輝は、本名は「きよてる」だが、画名は「せいき」と読む。 教え子からは「メートル（先生）」とフランス語（maître）で呼ばれた。 東京美術学校教授、帝国美術院院長（第2代）、貴族院議員などを歴任した。

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August 19th, 2018