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Original post by TechnoGoth
Are games a form of art and as such should be pursued and developed as such. Meaning that you do them not because you want to make money, but because you love making games and have a passion for them. Or should we consider them a business or construction project much like an engineer designing a bridge.
Who says that art is not about money? The more I read about it, the more I think that it is blatantly about money, whilst pretending that it isn''t. Artists can make a lot of money from selling their works to galleries, a bloke in 1976 made 1m pounds from the Tate by selling it Equivalent Eight, which was a pile of white bricks arranged in a rectangle. This ''sculpture'' was one of eight piles of bricks which showed different ways to arrange 240 bricks (into rectangles).
Damien Hirst (Hurst?) has made about 40 million from his varied artworks, and the investments that he made on the back of the profits from it.
Auction houses make huge amounts of money selling people''s paintings and antiques. Do you think that Van Gogh would have liked to have received the money that Sunflowers made at auction. (well, he was mad so you never know).
In olden times, patrons commisioned sculptors and painters to make pictures for them.
But, we still pretend that painting/ ''art'' is not about money, that it is just a hobby. Something to be done for the ''love of art''. Many artists no doubt REALLY DO believe that art is supposed to be free. But as you can seem, there is a lot of money that is made from it.
It is great to enjoy producing ''art'', but surely it is even better to make a good profit from it.
