Jutaro Kuroda

{{Short description|Japanese artist (1887–1970)}}

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{{Nihongo|Jutaro Kuroda|黒田 重太郎|Kuroda Jūtarō|1887–1970}} was a Japanese artist.{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/jutaro-kuroda-5803496-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5803496&sid=827a86c5-5cf7-4440-add1-f759696f4d87#top|title=Jutaro Kuroda|website=Christie's|accessdate=2017-08-11}} After studying art with the two Japanese masters of Yōga art at his time, namely Kanokogi Takeshiro and then Asai Chū,{{cite web|url=http://www.ndl.go.jp/france/en/part2/s2_1.html|title=Section 1: Artists who learned from France | Modern Japan and France―adoration, encounter and interaction|website=ndl.go.jp|accessdate=2017-08-11}} Kuroda went to Europe from 1914 to 1918 and intensified his Western-style painting practice, adopting a style most closely following the style of French painter Camille Pissarro.{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2005/09/15/arts/independent-brushstrokes/#.Voi3h-hRXxB|title=Independent brushstrokes|website=The Japan Times|date=15 September 2005 |accessdate=2017-08-11}} It was on his second journey that he became a pupil of the French Cubist artist André Lhote. Upon his return to Japan, Kuroda introduced Cubism to his homeland and became a central figure in the art circles in Kyoto from the late Meiji to the Showa era as a particularly accomplished water-colourist and oil painter.

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