The Art of War How War and Art Help Tell the American History By: Kelli Reppart Art Teacher Berrien Springs Middle School
Feb 24, 2016
The Art of War How War and Art Help Tell the
American HistoryBy: Kelli Reppart
Art TeacherBerrien Springs Middle School
Revolutionary War
• 1775 to 1783• English Colonist vs. Great Britain
Washington Crossing the Delaware Emanuel Leutze, MMA-NYC, 1851.
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17,1775
John Trumbull, 1786 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Civil War
• 1861-1865• Union (North) vs. Confederacy (South)
Home, Sweet HomeWinslow Homer, 1863 National Gallery Of Arts, Washington, D.C.
Civil War
World War I
• 1914-1918• Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-
Hungry VS Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia
• United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917
• 320,518 soldiers dead or wounded and 3,350 missing.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war
Destroy This Mad BruteUS government related, H.R. Hopps 1917
True Sons of Freedomby: Charles Gustrine, 1918
Wake Up America! James Montgomery Flagg, 1917.
Issued by U.S. Government 1917
1917
GassedJohn Singer Sargent, March 1919, Imperial War Museum, London
World War II
• 1939-1945• Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan VS Major
Allied Powers: United States, Britain, France and Russia
• US joined December 8th, 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
• 1,076,245 soldiers dead or wounded and 30,314 missing.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war
Victor Keppler, 1944
Rosie the RiveterJ. Howard Miller, 1942
Jap… You’re Next!James Montgomery Flagg1944
Landing Craft or EmbarkationJacob Lawrence
V-J Day in Time Square(Kissing the War Good-Bye)
Alfred Eisenstaedt, August 14, 1945
Vietnam War
• 1960-1975• United States and South Vietnam VS North
Vietnam• Number of soldiers dead or wounded 211,454
and 2,489 missing
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war
FlagJaper Johns, 1954-55, MoMA, New York
(Moratorium) FlagJasper Johns, 1969
Definition: A suspension of an activity.
(Napalm Girl)Nick Ut/AP, June 8th 1972
Phan Thi Kim Phuc Nick UT/AP 1997
War Is Not HealthyLorriane Schneider, 1966
War is Over! If You Want It.John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 1971
Burst of JoySlava Veder/ AP March 17, 1973
Iraq and Afghanistan Wars(War on Terror)
• Invasion of Afghanistan 2001 to present• Invasion of Iraq 2003 to Present• Number of soldiers dead or wounded in the
war on terror: 48,430 and 3 missing.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war
See the progression?
Uncle Sam, WWI Uncle Sam, Vietnam Uncle oSAMa(?), War on Terror
Artist Unknown found in NYC and LA