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In 1917 he was finally granted permission to accompany the Australian Imperial Force to record the activities of its soldiers and thus became the first Australian official war artist. The Australian War Records Section was created in 1917, largely as a result of lobbying by Bean, to implement the Commonwealth's war art scheme, and ten ...
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Upon returning to Australia, Longstaff continued to paint and teach art. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at the outbreak of the First World War and was injured in the Gallipoli campaign. In October 1915 he joined a remount unit and served in France and Egypt before being evacuated to England in 1917. In England, he began drawing ...
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. [7]
Alan Moore (1 August 1914 – 24 September 2015) was an Australian war artist during World War II. He is best known for his images of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, [1] [2] and the Australian War Memorial holds many of his works.
Edmund Arthur Harvey (1907–1994): British-born Australian artist; Ponch Hawkes (born 1946): photographer; Elaine Haxton (1909–1999): painter, printmaker, designer and commercial artist; Louise Hearman (born 1963): figurative painter; Ivor Hele (1912–1993): war artist for the Australian War Memorial, five times Archibald Prize winner
Sir John Campbell Longstaff (10 March 1861 – 1 October 1941) was an Australian painter, war artist and a five-time winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Longstaff was one of the most prolific portraitists of the Edwardian period, painting many high society figures in both Australia and Britain.
Dyson's position as an artist attached to the A.I.F. was formalised in May 1917 when he was appointed as Australia's first official war artist, as part of the Official War Art Scheme. [40] Dyson mixed with the Australian soldiers, frequently in or near the front line trenches, and produced a large amount of sketches, drawings and paintings. [41]