In the art world, as everywhere else, nothing would look the same after the Vietnam War. A show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum asks how artists responded ...

To understand just how much painting is an integral part of his life, KRIS 6 News went back in time to the Vietnam War, where a much younger Schumacher served in the Navy ground forces.

The performance feels feminist. But in a year that saw U.S. troop levels in Vietnam increased from 23,000 to 184,300, it was also easy to read as a comment on the war.

Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 (through Aug. 18) Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue (through Sept. 2) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; 202-633-7970 ...

Galvanized by the moral urgency of the Vietnam War, these artists reimagined the goals and uses of art, affecting developments in multiple movements and media: painting, sculpture, printmaking ...

A local veteran has found a way to combat his post-traumatic stress disorder — by turning it into something beautiful.

Earlier this month, one of Jim Finnerty's paintings, "The Year of The Monkey," placed second in the 2010 National Veteran's Art Competition. The contest drew 1,1716 entries.

The year was 2007, and Crapser, a Vietnam veteran, had been painting for 19 years. The blank canvas before him was his altar, Beethoven’s late string quartets were his hymns.

ART REVIEW In Tammy Nguyen’s stunning paintings, the complexities of the Vietnam War The Connecticut artist’s first solo exhibition, at the ICA, explores the frictions of past and present.

SUZANNE LECHT, Art Vietnam Gallery: The painting is entitled "Hope," the hope for the future. You see the figure walking on lotus, which is a symbol of purity in Vietnam.