page_title: Military art
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Military art / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: A column of Marines lug their packs out to the waiting helo in Haiti to provide humanitarian relief as part of "Operation Unified Response" after the disastrous earthquake in 2010. The figures in the background at right are a couple of Haitian onlookers and a Marine crouched down as part of the security perimeter. Sketch by Sgt. Kristopher Battles, USMC
context_page_description: Military art is art with a military subject matter, regardless of its style or medium. The battle scene is one of the oldest types of art in developed civilizations, as rulers have always been keen to celebrate their victories and intimidate potential opponents. The depiction of other aspects of warfare, especially the suffering of casualties and civilians, has taken much longer to develop. As well as portraits of military figures, depictions of anonymous soldiers away from the battlefield have been very common; since the introduction of military uniforms such works often concentrate on showing the variety of these.
  Naval scenes are very common, and battle scenes and "ship portraits" are mostly considered as a branch of marine art; the development of other large types of military equipment such as warplanes and tanks has led to new types of work portraying these, either in action or at rest. In 20th century wars official war artists were retained to depict the military in action; despite artists now being very close to the action the battle scene is mostly left to popular graphic media and the cinema.
caption: Marines lug their packs out to the waiting helo in Haiti in 2010. Sketch by Battles, USMC
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