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British official war artists were a select group of artists who were employed on contract, or commissioned to produce specific works during the First World War, the Second World War and select military actions in the post-war period.〔Tolson, Roger. ( "A Common Cause: Britain's War Artists Scheme." ) Canadian War Museum, 2005.〕 Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield;〔National Archives (UK), ( "'The Art of War,' Learn About the Art." )〕 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.〔Imperial War Museum (IWM), (About the Imperial War Museum )〕 A war artist creates a visual account of war by showing its impact as men and women are shown waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating,〔Canadian War Museum (CWM), ( "Australia, Britain and Canada in the Second World War," ) 2005.〕 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 rôle of the artist and his work embraces the causes, course and consequences of conflict and it has an essentially educational purpose.〔 ==First World War== The British Expeditionary Forces in Europe included artists whose work was exhibited at the Imperial War Museum after the end of hostilities.〔 After the outbreak of the First World War, Charles Masterman, head of the British War Propaganda Bureau and acting on the advice of William Rothenstein, appointed Muirhead Bone as Britain's first official war artist in May 1916.〔Vale Royal Borough Council. (2005). ( "Whitegate Conservation Area Update," p. 11. )〕 After Bone returned to England he was replaced by his brother-in-law, Francis Dodd, who had been working for the ''Manchester Guardian''. In 1917 arrangements were made to send other artists to France including Eric Kennington, William Orpen, Paul Nash, Christopher R. W. Nevinson and William Rothenstein. John Lavery was recruited to paint pictures of the home front. Nash later complained about the strict control maintained by the Bureau over the official subject matter, saying: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British official war artists」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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