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:

    “Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.”
    —Edward L. Bernds (b. 1911)

    “An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
    —Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)