Japan War History From ART Perspective: Japanese War Artists ( Painters ) at Pacific War to bridge between soldiers in battlefronts & people in the homeland

Friday, April 29, 2016

Japanese War Artists ( Painters ) at Pacific War to bridge between soldiers in battlefronts & people in the homeland

During the pacific war, many painters were dispatched to battlefronts to draw the war. Their artworks tended to have realistic description instead of being propaganda-like, that helped people know soldiers' struggling far away from the home land. At exhibitions of their artworks, it is said some people wept standing before the paintings, thinking of their sons, fathers, husbands, brothers, friends...

[ 1940's Japanese Pacific War Art Postcard "Battle Front of Burma , Attack on Mandalay / paint work by Tamura Konosuke, Army-serving painter" ]



1940's Japanese Pacific War Battle Art Vintage Postcard "Surprise Attack & Occupation of Palembang ( Indonesia ) by Army Paratroops ( paint work by Tsuruta Goro, Army-serving painter ) to capture the oil resources.












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