{"id":31295,"date":"2011-03-10T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-art-at-the-center-is-the-concept-of-beauty\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T03:12:08","slug":"in-art-at-the-center-is-the-concept-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-art-at-the-center-is-the-concept-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In art, at the center, is the concept of beauty. The notion of \u201cbeauty\u201d is loose. It is contested. It is even frequently denied its central role in many contemporary notions of the form. But what no one who wants to talk about art can do is ignore beauty. You can go around it or you can go through it, you can try and transform it or turn a blind eye toward it. You just can\u2019t get away from it and still talk about art. It\u2019s the thing at the center that keeps the globulous notion of art sensible; it\u2019s what unites a crucifix in a jar of urine with a 2,000 year old marble bust. The universe of art orbits the the giant galactic sun of beauty. So I say to my game dev colleagues\u2013See, games have no center! And I wave my hands like fireworks to emphasize the point. To which one of them replies, unimpressed. \u201cSure we have a center. It\u2019s fun\u201d I blink for a moment. Then I send my hands into an encore of enthusiasm. Exactly! Fun is the center. But no one will talk about it! Walk the floors of GDC or scan the program. Fun is not on the menu. Fun is a dirty word. Fun is the middle of games, but it\u2019s missing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/buzzcut.com\/?p=201\">The Missing Middle: Looking for Fun at GDC<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In art, at the center, is the concept of beauty. The notion of \u201cbeauty\u201d is loose. It is contested. It is even frequently denied its central role in many contemporary notions of the form. But what no one who wants to talk about art can do is ignore beauty. You can go around it or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-88L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}