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 takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
    —Baudouin I (b. 1930)

    “The saddest thing the thinker can say to the artist is this: “So, could you not watch with me one hour?””
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)