Kuroda's life

Haruki Kuroda (1866 ~ 1924) is a Japanese oil painter. No, it's a water lamp. 1866 Born in Kagoshima on June 29th, he went to Tokyo as a child and became the heir of his uncle Kuroda. When he was a teenager, he studied French at Tokyo Foreign Languages School. From 65438 to 0884, he was the brother-in-law of the ambassador to France at any time and studied law in France. He had planned to be a lawyer in politics in the future, but at a banquet hosted by the legation, his genius in painting was praised by local Japanese overseas Chinese and suggested that he study painting instead, but his family disagreed, so he painted while studying law. At the age of 20, he finally gave up the law and sent the painter L.-J.-R. Curran to study orthodox western classical painting. 189 1 ~ 1893, she was chosen to read books and make up in the morning.

1893 returned to China via the United States. The following year, he founded Naive Dojo with Kyuro Kumei, instilling French systematic art education in young people, and also participated in the Meiji Art Fair, exhibiting colorful works of Waiguang School, which attracted the attention of painting circles. At that time, there was a debate in Japan about whether nude painting was harmful to national customs. Haruhiko Kuroda, who has just returned to China, publicly displayed the nude painting "Make-up" at the exhibition, ending this endless debate. This is a great progress in the history of modern Japanese art.

1896, he and his colleagues founded the White Horse Club and became its leader, which was regarded as the flag of the new school of oil painting-Purple School. In the same year, the Department of Western Painting was added to Tokyo Art School. He was hired as a professor and head of the department, and successively recruited a group of oil painters as teachers, which promoted the normalization of oil painting education and the prosperity of oil painting in Japan. From 65438 to 0907, he promoted the opening of the art exhibition in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and became its examiner, publishing many works. 19 10, the first oil painter hired as an imperial craftsman. 19 13 was elected president of the National Artists Association. 19/kloc-founded the imperial academy of fine arts in 0/9 and became a member. 1922 was elected as the second president. 1920 was also elected to the House of Lords. In his later years, he mainly engaged in political and foreign cultural exchanges. 1924 July 15 died in Tokyo. By the way, Li Shutong, Hony's master, is his disciple.