Submitted by PureSophistry 695d ago | opinion piece  Educated
Gamer: Is there True Beauty in Games?  Art is in the imitation
of nature (Pere Andre Batteux 1675-1764) uniting the beauties of
nature is what an artist does, and a game unites more than any
other (Pagano 1748-99).  Although undoubtedly some games could
be construed as visually beautiful, what is beauty? Where does
it come from?  The beauty of art comes through the senses, all
of them, so food becomes an art because of the beauty of taste
as well as hairdressing and tailoring through the senses of
touch and sight, perfume making through smell. All become arts
because they give us pleasurable sensory information but beauty
also is undefined. There is no rigid definition of beauty, it’s
regarded of as is religion, that it is so obvious it doesn’t
require discussion, which is obviously just a lazy explanation.
Then why isn’t hairdressing and architecture and cooking and
video games considered an art? Surely video games should be a
super art because it