Tag: VIDEO GAME ART

When cataclysmic events occur and human lives are lost, observers inevitably wonder how a supreme being could allow such terrible circumstances to happen to undeserving innocents. Well, those events apparently take place because He/She/It (depending upon your persuasion) is an avid gamer who has been tragically corrupted by poisonous video game violence. A piece by artist Vadim Fishkin seems ...

Tired of defending the artistic worth of video games to your parents, spouse, or wine and cheese crowd friends? Well, the folks at Cracked.com have done the work for you and compiled a list of 10 games that should be considered modern art. While the list contains some expected popular choices, such as the 'Fallout' series and 'Shadow of the Colossus,' it also delves into the somewhat obscure to ...

The pixel, a humble little square of on-screen color, is the building block for all the classic video-game characters ever made, whether they be stumpy like Mario, or curvaceous and less mustachioed like Lara Croft. If you think of video games as huge, sweeping mosaics of these miniscule little squares, then Dutch artist Arno Coenen's artwork doesn't seem so strange. Coenen uses tiles like the ...