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A war artist depicts some aspect of war through art. The art might be a pictorial record, or it might commemorate how war shapes lives.〔Imperial War Museum (IWM), (header phrase, "war shapes lives" )〕 War artists explore the visual and sensory dimensions of war, often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.〔Australian War Memorial (AWM): (Australian official war artists )〕 ==Definition and context== A war artist creates a visual account of the impact of war by showing how men and women are waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating,〔Canadian War Museum (CWM), ("Australia, Britain, and Canada in the Second World War," ) 2005.〕 or destroyed, as in Vasily Vereshchagin's 1871 painting, ''The Apotheosis of War.'' 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.〔U.S. Naval Historical Center (NHHC), ("World War II Navy Art: A Vision of History," ), 2001〕 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.〔Reid, John B. (1977). ''Australian Artists at War,'' Vol. 2, p. 5.〕 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 artists. These can include combatants who are artists and choose to record their experiences, non-combatants who are witnesses of war, and prisoners of war who may voluntarily record the conditions or be appointed war artists by senior officers. In New Zealand, the title of appointed "war artist" changed to "army artist" after the two world wars.〔Gauldie, Matt. ( "History of the NZ Army Artist" )〕 In the United States, the term "combat artist" has come to be used to mean the same thing.〔("With Sketchpads and Guns, Semper Fi"; )〕 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「war artist」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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