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

[Zappykins]

MDMAlliance said:

Zappykins said:

Well, that's one of the things about art. It's not the creator that decides what is art or not - it's the interpretation.  While I personally like the Aesthetics for art evaluation, they have been thrown out for many years.  Now anything that inspires other to look, or think about something different or provoke though is consider art.

What about Poetry?  It isn’t looked at its – read.  Music?  Is music art?

So if you put a Space Shuttule in a museum - is it art?

@Bold: Yes.  This is one of the points I think some people don't understand.  If a creator of a piece of work says it's not "art," it doesn't suddenly become "not art."  Many times, we disregard the thoughts of the original creator when analyzing these things.  That's kind of what they teach in Literature classes.

@Italics:  Another point I was trying to make.  Some try to define art as something that must be observed.  Reading something is not observing.  Listening to something is not observing.  If we make these limitations on art, we have to take away a lot of things that have already become established as art forms.

I think we have a very similar definition of art.  I was going to point out John Cage's 4'33" music piece, but you already covered it so well with the black and white canvases I didn't think it was needed. 

I think many missed the revolution.  Yes, art can be an oil painting someone places in a museum.  The defination of art has expanced in the last 200 years.  During the Bauhaus movement this chair was considered art.  And when I first saw one as a little kid I was blown away by the design.  I loved how it looked like you were sitting on nothing.

But the adults thought I was wacky.  And they might have been right, but then again, so was I.  The design didn’t inspire them, they just saw it as something to sit on, but I saw it as a revolution.

With art there isn't always a wrong.  There can be right, and a different right.