Word: tetsugoro
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...dissonant red and green lines, his prototype was Matisse's work of 30 years before. Occasionally one picks up some shadows and echoes of cubism -- a broken plane here, a little faceting or transparency there -- but in general the Japanese seem to have avoided it, with one exception: Yorozu Tetsugoro (1885-1927). The self-styled wild man of the Japanese expatriates ("I am a kind of walking aborigine," he proclaimed), Yorozu ran through Van Gogh and fauvism and, after returning to Japan in 1907, arrived at a frenetic mixture -- synthesis is not the right word -- of expressionism and cubism...
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