War Artist

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. War artists explore the visual and sensory dimensions of war, often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.

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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or artist:

    “It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it!”
    —Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)

    “Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)