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Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield; [2] but there are many other types of war artist. A war artist will have depicted some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how war shapes lives. [3]
Pages in category "British war artists" The following 174 pages are in this category, out of 174 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Pages in category "English war artists" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Mary Adshead;
Pages in category "Lists of war artists" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... British official war artists; C. Canadian official war ...
David Jones (1895–1974) – Welsh artist and British modernist poet; William Roberts (1895–1980) – English painter and war artist; Raymond Coxon (1896–1997) – British artist; Leila Faithfull (1896–1994) – British artist; Harry Barr (1896-1987) – English painter; John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) – New Zealand born illustrator
Military art and portraiture has evolved along with other aspects of war. The British official war artists of the First World War created a unique account of that conflict. The British War Artists Scheme expanded the number of official artists and enlarged the scope of their activities during the Second War. [33]
The War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC), was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and headed by Sir Kenneth Clark. Its aim was to compile a comprehensive artistic record of Britain throughout the war.
This category contains individuals who focused extensive in creating War art or art that records and depicts wartime events. Most war art was completed under official war art programs, such as the United States Army Art Program. Ideally, war artist pages should be categorized by both nationality, and by the war in which they focused if those ...