What is art?

 

Art is no longer a category. It is a descriptive term.
It has a certain level of prestige to it. It's at a higher level of "quality" than "non-art".
And art is something that people have differing viewpoints on. You might think art is one thing while another thinks it's another.
So, when people try to classify certain things such as video games and drawings/"traditional art" as "art" and leave certain other things out, you get complications.

 

Look at this Deadlock episode on The Game Theorists:

It's asking about which game is more "artistic", Pac-man or The Last of Us.
Here, we've got two differing opinions.
The first one is that art can be simplistic, but can be interpreted further and have different viewpoints as to what it means.
The second one is that art is beautiful in a objective stance. That it delves into human nature and leaves us wondering about ourselves and mankind.
So really, we're not asking which one is "more artistic". We're asking which of them is more beautiful to us. Which one hits us home the most. And when you try to put only one of those into the category of "art", you're missing out.

 

In reality, everything is art. Pac-man is art. The Last of Us is art. The drawing that I have as the entry image is art. This text is art.
But life would be boring if we just accepted the truth.
Or maybe I'm interpreting this wrong? Maybe this is just my opinion on art?
We'll never know.