any image can be considered art i guess. any photograph, drawing, or painting.
i think people look really hard to find the "arty games" like ICO and SotC. However, art as a general concept can be found in any game, no matter how.... unimpressive.
the difference between most games and photos, painting, movies, etc. is the concept of 'mis en scene'. what is going on within a particular frame at any given moment. Games tend to lack depth and subtly in the way that most art critics are used to seeing it.
For example, citizen kane. Just about every frame in that game is meticulously crafted. space is used perfectly. there is also subtlety in camera pans, dollies, cranes, etc. since a game is always moving and the camera usually whipped around at your discretion, it's hard for any game to sustain an artful appearance.
when referring to games, the word "subtly" is often used to describe graphics. how you can detect individual blades of grass, how a characters shirt sways in the wind, etc. in a movie, it's reflected in, for intense, how close characters sit apart from each other, the briefness of a glance, how the sun sets just right to suggest something about a character or event.
anyway, there's a lot to it. i personally feel like, by nature, it's hard for games to be considered art by the classical sense. that is to say, a game can be comprised of artful elements without being a piece of art as a whole. however, some people may disagree and some may not care. it's my opinion though.
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