If you are looking for a conventional, textbook definition of what art is then you have failed to grasp what art is.
Art is subjective to each person experiencing it. Some people may view the Mona Lisa as a definitive work of art. Other's may see a creepy woman half smiling.
Some may look at half-life as a mute scientist bludgeoning headcrabs with a crowbar. Some may see it as one of the best stories ever told.
You can't dismiss one medium in favour of another, art doesn't work like that. It just makes the people arguing for what is and isn't art sound like pretentious douche bags who have spent so long analyzing it they have forgotten what it is.
Art is fuckin art, doesn't matter where it is, what it is or why it is. People instinctively go to team ICO for the argument of games as art. They are only arguing for what the 'think' art should be. They are seeking definition where there is none. Yes Shadow and Ico are works of art but so is bayonetta, halo, duke nukem, CoD, resident evil.
It's like trying to compare a famous painting to a newborn baby. Are they not both works of amazing art that can be enjoyed and cherished in different ways?
Art is subjective to each person experiencing it. Some people may view the Mona Lisa as a definitive work of art. Other's may see a creepy woman half smiling.
Some may look at half-life as a mute scientist bludgeoning headcrabs with a crowbar. Some may see it as one of the best stories ever told.
You can't dismiss one medium in favour of another, art doesn't work like that. It just makes the people arguing for what is and isn't art sound like pretentious douche bags who have spent so long analyzing it they have forgotten what it is.
Art is fuckin art, doesn't matter where it is, what it is or why it is. People instinctively go to team ICO for the argument of games as art. They are only arguing for what the 'think' art should be. They are seeking definition where there is none. Yes Shadow and Ico are works of art but so is bayonetta, halo, duke nukem, CoD, resident evil.
It's like trying to compare a famous painting to a newborn baby. Are they not both works of amazing art that can be enjoyed and cherished in different ways?
