An artist employed to draw or paint events and situations arising during a war.
战争题材画家
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Wounded during the 1914-18 war, he was appointed an official war artist and examples of his work from this time, We are Making a New World and The Menin Road, are in the Imperial War Museum.
In 1993 he went to Bosnia as Britain's official war artist, returning home after two weeks when he collapsed with dysentery.
Lewis served in the 1914-18 war first as a bombardier at Ypres and then as a Canadian war artist.
His premature death when working as a war artist in the Second World War has added to his romantic appeal, but you don't need rose-tinted glasses for the bittersweet nature of his work to please.
In 1918 he worked as a war artist and from 1890 until c. 1925 he painted murals for Boston Library and Museum.
At the outbreak of the Second World War he became the youngest war artist, appointed by Kenneth Clark.
The daughter of Sir Hans Heysen and the first woman to win the Archibald prize, Nora Heysen painted and drew as an appointed official war artist from 1943-1946.
This is because the book The Idea of North is inching towards its conclusion via a consideration of Ravilious's wonderful arctic watercolours, painted while he was a war artist in 1940.
When the internationally recognised Scottish painter Peter Howson returned from Bosnia, where he was the official war artist in 1994, he was so severely traumatised that he suffered a breakdown.
Munnings' particular talents were put to use during WorldWar I when he was employed as a war artist.
He became famous for his portraits of Glasgow thugs and the drawings he made as the UK's official war artist in Bosnia.
You wouldn't ask a children's illustrator to be a war artist.
C.R.W. Nevinson: the modern artist of modern war: during Nevinson's career as a war artist in 1914-18, his paintings changed dramatically in style.
Known as a painter of society portraits Orpen was also an official war artist for the British government and went to the Western Front in 1916.
Although he was unfit for military service during the First World War, he was appointed a war artist and went to France.
Aged just 16, he moved to London and went on to serve as a war artist during the first and second world wars.
Earlier that year he had become an official war artist and had produced a series of extraordinary paintings of the interiors of submarines, conveying the claustrophobic intensity of that perilous environment.
It is also the first major exhibition by the artist, who was the official war artist in Bosnia, since he recovered from alcoholism over a year ago.
Mary Kessel was also the official war artist at the liberation of Belsen.
The collection included works by fellow Scots John Bellany and Ken Currie, second world war artist Christopher Nevinson and illustrator Glen Baxter.