Official War Art: Where Are the Women?

It is hard to find art made by Australian women during World War I and II. In
Canada and Britain, the situation of women artists was almost the same, but they
changed earlier than Australia. Neither the British nor the Canadian war art schemes
had any difficulty appointing women, because unlike Australian, they had established
women's services. The other reason of this phenomenon is the paucity of real
experience on the battlefield. People believed that artists would have an intimate
knowledge of the devastation of the battlefield. Rather than being silenced by
founding myths and the exclusive cultural forms of the landscape and the Anzac,
women artists in that period tried hard to negotiate speaking positions.
I find their lots of similar things happened in China just Australia. The overlook
of women’s voice existed for thousands of year in Chinese history and not just in
World War period, before the First World War, there even no women artist was
recorded in the history.