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Art, who decides what is and what isn't art. Many people look at a movie, comic book, paintings, sculptures, music, and even nature for the matter and call it "artistic" or it has an "artistic style". But when someone try's to mention video games into the fray people are like "What? Games as art? That's preposterous! Games can't be art because they don't have a meaning/emotion and they are made on a computer."
Here's http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/art definition of art. The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
Now mine. Art: Anything that displays a unique/unusual perception, beauty of something.
Two different definitions with the same meaning/context.
I mean really if something like this can be art.
Why can't this?
I think anything can be art as long as it has unique properties to it, and also tries to express or convey some sort of emotion from the person looking at it. I really hope that this debate doesn't get dragged on forever. I mean really, it doesn't take a physicist to figure out what type of objects has physics, so why does an artist or person to look at a game and take so long to judge whether it's art or not?
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Yeah, it can be art. Anything is art actually, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There are several things I don't consider art that maybe some people are absolutely facisinated by.
So yes, I think video games are art.
Do artists help make games? Yes. So clearly video games are art.
Video games most definitely are art. When done well, they are even superior to the type of art you see in a museum, because they combine music and visuals to make an interactive experience.
Yea it't art. Art means more then drawings and paintings, although artists in that sense do work on games.
Here is one of the best definitions of art in the manner we are speaking of according to the merriam-webster dictionary.
"the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also : works so produced"
If that video games don't fall into that catagory, what does?
*tear* nice one dude. Yeah Shadow of the Colossus is one of the most artistic games I ever played. If you played it and felt nothing then I shall do a Gregorian chant for your soul, or a Voodoo insomnia curse, either way...
oh its art alright, and its begging to cover all art forms in one. Interactive art that cant be beat.
Too bad for ever SotC or Okami, there is a Manhunt or GTA that freaks out the ignorant masses. Yet they conveniently forget that many disturbing movies like Halloween or Silence of the Lambs are considered art.
I have seen many kinds of art. Some are mellow. Some are beautiful. And sometimes......art can just BE CRAP. And seriously! Can ANYTHING be art, at all. Say the rest of this with a French accent. I am angry! I shall type sideways a smile face. (taptaptaptap)I give to you, art. :) :0 And my best! x( Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
The beginning stages of a video game starts with concept art.
"starts with concept art."
"concept art."
"art."
Basically what I am saying here is that if video games derive from concept art, which is art, then why should it no longer be considered art if it then becomes animated?
I did not understand what you just said. Can't art just be art no matter what???