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War Sketchbook assignment
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Throughout these “wars”, artists have produced artwork dealing with the different aspects of these “wars”. Pablo Picasso’s Guernica was painted in response to the 1937 bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War (Guernica). Kathe Kollwitz, a female German Expressionist artist, produced work dealing with the oppression of the working class and the loss of her son during World War I (Kollwitz Museum). Franz Marc’s The Wolves (Balkan War), 1913 was a response to the tension leading up to World War I. More modern responses to racial conflicts would include Native American artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. Emma Amos and Carrie Mae Weems deal with both issues of gender and race in their works. Female artist, Cindy Sherman does photography that deals with gender issues (biography, photos). Environmental artist, Lynne Hull builds trees out of recycled material to provide dwellings for birds.
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What is war? War is a conflict, a disagreement
of ideas or interests. War is not confined to military combat. Through
the centuries there have been many reasons for war, control of land,
politics, religion, and many others. Today we engage in wars of many
kinds: war on drugs, fashion wars, technology wars, gender wars, racial
wars, war on diseases, war on hunger, environmental wars, war on crime,
and others. Currently, as a country we are in the midst of a war on
terrorism, which has lead us into military combat with Iraq (