For most of the last ten years Michael Fay was an official war artist for the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. A war artist, in case you don’t know, is someone who heads to combat zones to draw what he sees there, which seems both incredibly dangerous and a potent counterargument to anyone who still thinks that artists are wimps.
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/06/15/drawing-in-the-danger-zone/
a very interesting read
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