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Tags: art, roger ebert
Lighthouse Hill, Edward Hopper (1927)
Oblivion, Bethesda (2006)
The Needles’ Lighthouse from Keyhaven, Hampshire
Charles Tennyson Turner (1868)
The downs and tender-tinted cliffs are lost,
And nothing but the guardian fire remains –
That crimson-headed tower on the rough coast,
Whose steady lustre ceases not, nor wanes
Till sunrise from the east reveals to us
The mightly Vectian wold, and tawny tract
Of shingle, seen through bowers of arbutus,
Like some fair corn-field, mellow and compact.
How that deep glow the deepening gloom attests!
How much is by that noble lighthouse taught!
Mine eye rests on it, as the spirit rests
In sorrow, on some holy, ardent thought,
The sole beam in our darkness! Those who dwell
Near these great beacons are instructed well.
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According to Roger Ebert, one of these isn’t art.
tom:
I think Ebert makes the point that there is no art. Art is entirely subjective. When did the stool and the bicycle wheel become are? When Duchamp combined them? Or when someone declared it art? Some things become art and later are not art. But are video games ever art? I don’t think so. Not until you can shove a bike fork through one.
carocat:
I read it last night and I think I have to disagree with you, Tom.
At some point he mentioned he defines art as created by just one person which a game [in pretty much every case] isn’t.
I do think games can be art, but not all of them are.
Btw, I’m glad you didn’t pick this type of painting from Oblivion!
carocat:
Stripped my link, probably due to me missing tags as usual:
http://carocat.co.uk/2007/04/09/oblivion-fighters-guild-quests/
Terry:
@carocat I don’t remember that part! I do remember the mission where you have to enter a painting. That was incredible. And I’m glad I didn’t run into that Thieves’ Guild bug.