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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

Kuroda Seiki: Who was the celebrated painter who brought Western style to imperial Japan?

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Japanese artist Kuroda Seiki is the subject of the latest Google Doodle on the 156th anniversary of his birth.

An influential painter of the late 19th and early 20th century, Seiki is credited with importing Western-style (or “yoga”) art theory to his homeland after studying his craft in Paris and developing what became his signature “Academic Impressionist” style.

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