Paraskeva Clark's Wartime Art

Prior to World War II, women were considered inferior and inferior to men in Canada 's labor force. The traditional role of women as housewives reflects social norms and values ​​of the times. During the Second World War, women temporarily met wartime labor and non-traditional roles in society (MacIvor 14). This time it is the first time that women have proved to be competent, maintaining a paid position and being a "male's job", this is the first time for women to enter society and get out of their role as a housewife It is wonderful.

Art and writing can provide a window for wartime experience. Sybil Craig, Nora Heysen, Stella Bowen is one of the official war artists appointed by the Australian Government during the Second World War, their impression of the war is the work of many artworks organized by the Canberra Australian War Memorial It was one of them. Letters, diaries and other written records convey women's experiences in various conflicts. Betty Jeffrey's book "White Coolies" (1945) and Jesse Simmons' work "The History World (Reissued as a Hand of Japan in 1954, 1985)), Japan is in World War II Personal record Susan Terry's book "House of Love: The Life of a Vietnamese Hospital" (1966) reflects her experience as a private nurse during the Vietnam War.

In 1943, the Canadian government launched an official war art program to record and report wartime atrocities through direct artistic views (see War Artists). Thirty-one recruitment artists selected for this program, including Alex Colville and Aba Bayefsky, have created a visual depiction of war (photos, sketches, pictures) for military records and consumption by Canadian citizens . In these media, journalists and artists are trying to explain what they have witnessed, including that concentration camps and human beings remain in death row. This unprecedented discussion of the masses, state support, and anti-Jewish violence challenges understanding. There are few Canadians who can understand or believe that Nazi Germany systematically destroys European Jews.