The US government recognizes games as an art form

[Gnac]

Doobie_wop said:

Gnac said:

It's interactive media, which just happens to require artistic processes in its creation. The end result is a product which is intended for mass consumption. To call that something so rare as art just feeds the egos of fools.

Paintings, statues, music, books, movies and cartoons are made with the intent to just create, but they still have to make money somehow. Hell, Bach, Shakespeare and Mozart all had pieces of work that was specifically designed and created to appeal to their benefactor at the time. History is filled with artists who were paid to create great pieces of work, some of them moderated just like some of todays games are. 

Your also eqauting art with quality, not all art is good art (imo) and there is no objective view of art. People laugh when Black Ops is brought up, but how is Black Ops any different in terms of quality from this:

 

In the end, your attempting to close off  the term 'art' to a very specific kind of idea, but the problem is that not everyone agrees with your idea and they shouldn't have to. When all it basically comes down to is that art is process of arranging items in a way that infleunces and affects one or more of the senses, emotions or intellect. Games fall under that definition.

Just so you know, the way you think of art was traditional way, which is that art is used to describe something of skill or mastery. That traditional description changed during the Roman period and it's now just a method of stimulating thought or emotion. 

I get the impression that you just read the last word of my post and went on a rant.

I have not even touched upon many of the things you have implied in your post.