A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record. War artists explore the visual and sensory dimensions of war, often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.
These artists may be involved in war as onlookers to the scenes, military personnel, or as specifically commissioned to be present and record military activity.
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