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Rafux on 19 February 2014
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rolltide101x said:
Rafux said:
rolltide101x said:
Rafux said:
Rogerioandrade said:
Videogames are not essentially art. They are basically just games, challenges for the player, they´re closer to board games in their essence than to art itself. But videogames are a form of entertainment that uses art to be produced, be it visual arts, music or interpretation.


Yes! Finally someone who gets it, the rest are just bashing the art teacher.


If it uses art that makes it art.....


No, baby diapers tv ads use art and they are not art, potatoes snacks use art and they are not art, my house uses art on its walls yet I would not consider my particular house art.


The design on the baby's diapers were created by artist, artist created the designs on the chips, the way you have your house layed out could be considered art

 

Anything can be art. I agree with a good bit of people. If something was created with art in mind it is art. If I take a pencil and draw a picture it is art (crappy art mind you)


Thats exactly what I said, the designs in the diaper are art, the music in the jingle for the tv ad is art but the tv ad itself is not art neither is the diaper.

Games have art in them but that doesnt make them art because games are chained by the fact that they have to be fun and challenging first and then they can have artistic merits.

For example a painting can be sad, nostalgic, fun, enraging, inspiring, etc. It can be anything the artist wants it to be is not chained to anything  but a video game is chained to be always a fun challenging product first and foremost then it can convey other emotions.

An artist can expose a painting which is just a black canvas and say that it represents the afterlife but Hideo Kojima can't release a game which is just a black screen and call the game Afterlife, even a movie director can release a short film which is just a black screen for 5 minutes and call it afterlife.

And if Hideo Kojima decides that he actually wants to release a game which is just a black screen for 5 minutes called Afterlife for free on IOS and Android then people would say "Its not a videogame"