My girlfriend's art teacher said video games are not art. Do you agree?

[Zappykins]

rolltide101x said:

Zappykins said:
The burden of deciding if anything is Art is up to the interpretor. Is Bonsi art? It's a living thing? A tree.

Are paintings are? Well, many people say they are.

How about a chair design? Many people like antique chairs, but also bahouse ones. Because people decide they are.

Video Games are art because I say they are. I can interpret and justify as I could any other legitimate form of art.

Ask this person how much they know about and have been exposed to video games. It usually a judgment made by people that do not know any better. And sounds like it is your obligation to educate them.

I think I am going to get a picture of professionally printed and say I drew it and colored it and see what he says. He does not know me and would have no idea if I was an artist or not.

Will probably need to refine this idea. I will think about it for the next week or 2.

That's the thing.  The quality of the art is subjective.  So it's up to interpretation of it is good or bad art. But by asking the question confirms that the subject is unquestionably art.

 It’s like Jackson Pollock.  People say, “hey I could dump paint on a canvas and it would be the same.”  Well, yes an no, because he had the option of doing other things as a master painter.  And the intent is different.  But the results might be similar in apperance to a layperson.