Art right now is different than it has ever been, and in particular war art is of a wholly different genre than in any generations previous. Historical pictures of soldiers tend to portray the soldiers in strong, bold positions, while the rise of photography brought a more humane, but distinctly hard appearance to the [...]

One of the greatest cultural disappointments since Americans sent soldiers in Iraq was the chaos that allowed for the destruction of various artworks across the country, both by the soldiers in Iraq, along with plenty of civilian looters, as well as tangential bombings. Moreover, at this point, the lack of records and art infrastructure [...]

Since the invasion of Iraq, there has been a great cultural thirst in the rest of the world to view Iraqi artwork. So far much of this has had to do with typical war art, including various photographs, generally of a soldier in his day to day life, or of civilians in the same. [...]

Though many people prefer to support troops by sending commodities or writing letters, using artwork is a great way to support troops in Iraq is by using art. Even for people who have little or no artistic background, this can be an extremely touching way to personalize letters to Iraq soldiers, or to raise [...]

Throughout history, war heroes have traditionally liked extremely heroic war art done of themselves. Of course, this tends to have been done before the time of photography, however the photography tended to inhibit the extravagance and exuberance of war art, in favor of a more realistic and less dressed up version of events. [...]

Right now one of the most common forms of “war art” made specifically to support troops is portraits. These portraits are often drawings or paintings of fallen soldiers that are done pro bono by local artists and then shipped to the families of the fallen soldiers. However, there are a number of different [...]

Paintings of soldiers tend to be grand, heroic works that represent both bravery and suffering, reality and idealism. The following paintings cover the whole spectrum, and represent the ideals of each of these different feelings, in their own ways. Moreover, all of these paintings are incredibly famous, not just as a representation of [...]

Art has long served as a form of expression for releasing emotions and making points on life or thought in general. All of the following art exhibits commemorate a soldier or soldiers in the pieces of artwork they contain. Each art exhibit looks to bring emotion or feeling to some part of the [...]

Around the world, in every war fought by people, there are war heroes to which other citizens inevitable owe their lives and to whom they pay their respects. In America alone there are thousands of memorial to war heroes which collectively receive millions of visitors annually. The difficulty of these memorials to our [...]