Are video games Art?

[alanschu]

Limiting "art" to stuff like paintings and sculptures, is a cheap shot to a lot of artists out there IMO.

[Shadowstrider]

To me, it's real simple: art is art. Paintings, drawings, and the like. I do remember that in Art Class we surely weren't aught about movies, games, or books. Those who were in other classes like Creative Writing, English, and the like.

 

Game over.

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That's a really stupid way of coming to that conclusion...no offense.

 

Think about it, the class has to have a curriculum that it can get through in one years time, or a semester. Try fitting the study of music, movies, writing, painting, and drawing into a single class.

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Welcome to the world of Vologic.

[Rosbjerg]

Art is what happens when an artist lets himself loose on a canvas, lump of clay or sheet of paper. When youre making game graphics, you work entirely with someone elses ideas and your work is constantly checked and corrected. The primary function of a Lead artist is to ensure that every piece of graphics for a game has the same look and style. And in that climate, its not possible for the kind of individualistic expression that true art requires.

 

 

Also, a game is a very very compromised medium where a single genius will find it impossible to achieve something that is even close to his original medium. And art must never ever compromise.

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Most films are purely entertainment, but in film a small number of extremely driven people have succeeded in bending the medium to their will and create films which are works of art.

 

The whole "auteur" thing and that.

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well by your own dismissal of games, movies can not be considered art either .. it took people to make them, not just the author - not just one man with a piece of clay - people working together to create another mans idea (sometimes more authors) - just like with a video game .. thus movies are a compromise - as any kind of art always will be .. words are an hindrance as is form compared to thought .. art is pure you say (I guess), well then how can that purity ever be translated into reality? you sacrifice and compromise some of your ideas (or aspects of them) to make it real ..

[Judge Hades]

Limiting "art" to stuff like paintings and sculptures, is a cheap shot to a lot of artists out there IMO.

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So you are saying that canned excremete is art? You are one wierd guy.

[Baley]

Why isn't it art, Hades?

[alanschu]

Limiting "art" to stuff like paintings and sculptures, is a cheap shot to a lot of artists out there IMO.

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So you are saying that canned excremete is art? You are one wierd guy.

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I don't believe I said that at all.