War artist
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Date: 08/01/2022

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#War_artists
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash.
Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II A war artist is an artist commissioned by a government or publication, or self motivated,
to document their first hand experience of war in the form of an illustrative record or a depiction of how war shapes lives.
War artists explore the visual and sensory dimensions of war, often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.
A war artist in German-occupied France in 1941 War artists may be involved as onlookers to the scenes, military personnel who respond to powerful inner urges to depict direct war experience,
or individuals who are officially commissioned to be present and record military activity.
A war artist creates a visual account of the impact of war by showing how men and women are waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating, or destroyed, as in Vasily Vereshchagin's 1871 painting, The Apotheosis of War.
The Third of May 1808 1814, by Francisco Goya The works produced by war artists illustrate and record many aspects of war and the individual's experience of war, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural.
The role of the artist and his work is to embrace the causes, course, and consequences of conflict, and has an essentially educational purpose.
Artists record military activities in ways that cameras and the written word cannot.
Their art collects and distills the experiences of the men and women who endured it.
The artists and their artwork affect how subsequent generations view military conflicts.
For example, Australian war artists who grew up between the two world wars were influenced by the artwork which depicted the First World War, and there was a precedent and format for them to follow.
Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda ...