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

Wright said:
rolltide101x said:
TRAVIS!!! said:
Videogames have an artstyle,, leveldesign, have a soundrack, tell stories and so forth...

how on earth are videogames NOT a work of art?


Because the apparently do not meet the criteria of some supposed artists I guess.


lol I am off today, must be the excitement to get home. I honestly do not know what I was thinking but I would assume I was going to reword it and forgot to edit the other part I typed.



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I think her teach has a form of ignorance. Art is a form of expression, and video games can be used to convey that. That's like saying the Mona Lisa isn't art.



If this is concidered art, most everything can be concidered art. -__-



Wright said:
kitler53 said:

journey is art because the artist was trying to create art.  Cod,.. not so much. the artistic value was never the focus of the game director.


So art can't be commercial now?


where did i ever say anything even remotely close to that?



Wow an art teacher. Why aren't we listening to his insights? His knowledge brought him so far!



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Everything can be art. Question is whether it's good art. How close-minded of them.



This thread reminds me of this:

Videogames can't be directly compared to other forms of art, they're an independent artform themselves, that's why some elitists don't consider videogames as art, they keep falsely compering them to other forms of art. 



vivster said:
Wow an art teacher. Why aren't we listening to his insights? His knowledge brought him so far!


Well he was an art professor at a major university and is an art professor at one of the largest community colleges in the country now. (teacher was the wrong word lol)



Hynad said:

 

If this is concidered art, most everything can be concidered art. -__-

I love your "Dead Link" joke lol



rolltide101x said:
Hynad said:

If this is concidered art, most everything can be concidered art. -__-

I love your "Dead Link" joke lol


Hmmm... It's not supposed to be a dead link... xD