Steve Mumford's "Dying Soldier" 2009 oil on linen.
After witnessing war first hand, an artist’s depiction never resembles Rambo or the animated Xbox games like “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” or any other fictional account of war. It is almost always a portrait of people thinking they are doing the right thing, killing or dying because someone has asked them to. They are never the people who start wars.
The Postmasters Gallery in New York City is currently showing recent paintings by Steve Mumford that depict his experience when visiting Iraq and Afghanistan. Mumford paints the dutiful, the courageous, the bored and the frightened. Unlike a photographer, a painter spends a long time with what must surely haunt them.
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