War artist

Artists were granted permission to accompany the Australian Imperial Force to record the activities of its soldiers.

[14] These embedded war artists have depicted the activities of Australian forces in Korea, Vietnam, East Timor, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

The ranks of non-soldier artists like George Gittoes continue to create artwork which becomes a commentary on Australia's military actions in war.

Artwork like the 1688 painting,The Fleet at Sea by Willem van de Velde the Younger depict the Royal Navy in readiness for battle.

[33] Significant themes in the chronicle of twentieth-century wars have been developed by non-military, non-official, civilian artists.

For example, society portraitist Arabella Dorman's paintings of wounded Iraq War veterans inspired her to spend two weeks with three regiments in different frontline areas: the Green Jackets at Basra Palace, the Queen's Own Gurkhas at Shaibah Logistics Base ten miles south-west of Basra, and the Queen's Royal Lancers in the Maysaan desert.

[83] During the colonial period, large-scale, European-style paintings of war dominated New France and British North America.

[83] A few First World War paintings were exhibited in the Senate of Canada Chamber, and artists studied these works as a way of preparing to create new artworks in the conflict in Europe which expanded after 1939.

[87] Prominent themes explored by Canadian war artists include commemoration, identity, women, Indigenous representation, propaganda, protest, violence, and religion.

Teams of soldier-artists during the Vietnam War created pictorial accounts and interpretations for the annals of army military history.

[128] The majority of combat artists of the 1970s were selected by George Gray, chairman of NACAL, Navy Air Cooperation and Liaison committee.

In January 1978 the U.S. Navy chose a seascape specialist team: they asked Patricia Yaps and Wayne Dean, both of Milford, Connecticut, to capture air-sea rescue missions off of Key West while they were based at the nearby Naval Air Station Key West.

Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash . Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II
A war artist in German-occupied France in 1941
Australians and New Zealanders at Klerksdorp 24 March 1901 by Charles Hammond
The Fall of Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 by Denis Dighton , c. 1825
The Last Stand at Isandlwana , 1879, by Charles Edwin Fripp in 1885. Collection of the National Army Museum of South Africa
Portrait of POW "Dusty" Rhodes. A three-minute sketch by Ashley George Old painted in Thailand
Canadian Forestry Corps ' Gas Attack, Lievin (1918) by Canadian war artist A. Y. Jackson
Capt. Will Ogilvie , Official army war artist, with some of his paintings, 9 February 1944
Willem van de Velde the Elder (c. 1611–1693) was the official naval war artist of the Dutch Admiralties during the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars in the 17th century.
War artist Kari Suomalainen working on a drawing during the Continuation War .
Eugène Chigot (1917), The rebuilding of partially destroyed Calais docks during the Great War.
French war art poster by Henri Dangon , 1916. Lithograph by Imp. H. Chachoin, Paris
Bellevue Ridge , 1918 by New Zealand official war artist George Edmund Butler
The Last Attack of the Wounded Bugler by Ion Stoica Dumitrescu , 1917
The Apotheosis of War by Vasily Vereshchagin , 1871
Spanish war artist Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau in Afghanistan (2012)
Thomas Lea's The 2000 Yard Stare published in 1945
Michael Fay is an official US Marine war artist, one of only three whose work depicts the battlefronts in Iraq and Afghanistan (2007).
Landing Zone by John O. Wehrle, CAT I, 1966, Courtesy of the National Museum of the United States Army
Sergeant Than Naing of Wounded Warrior Battalion, East, sketched by Robert William Bates, 2011