For sale: oil paintings inspired by games

9 Comments by Conrad Quilty-Harper May 25th 2006 6:25PM
Filed under: Culture

Jeremiah Palacek is a painter living in Prague in the Czech Republic. Over the last year he's created 154 paintings, many of which are inspired by, as he calls it "imagery from digital mediums" (read: games). You can see three examples of his work in the image above: from left to right you have an 8 foot by 4 foot monster inspired by Counter-Strike complete with abstract blood spatters, a straight up Duck Hunt imitation and last but not least, a sweeping (at least for those days) digital landscape from Road Rash. Who says games aren't art?

[Via BoingBoing]

Tags: Art, BoingBoing, Counter-Strike, Duck Hunt, DuckHunt, Games, Gaming, Oil painting, OilPainting, Road Rash, RoadRash, Video game art, VideoGameArt

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cringer8: May 25th 2006; 6:30PM

That guy must have stunk at duck hunt to waste all three bullets without getting a single duck :)

Unimental: May 25th 2006; 7:23PM

I, too, am inspired by Road Rash.

Imadogg99: May 25th 2006; 7:50PM

That painting makes me want to get a Wii so I can play Duck Hunt again! But unfortunately, I'm almost 100% sure my parents will not let me get another console... sucks...

Mike: May 25th 2006; 8:19PM

well if your old enough that you experienced the first duck hunt, I think its time you start making your own decisions about your video games and not letting your parents tell you what to do lol.

Nintendo Kiddy: May 25th 2006; 8:34PM

Those are sweet nintendo graphics. Just another reason why...

Nintendo = teh wiin.

Imadogg99: May 25th 2006; 8:57PM

4. "well if your old enough that you experienced the first duck hunt, I think its time you start making your own decisions about your video games and not letting your parents tell you what to do lol."

Well, unfortunately for myself, I am 16 years old and still am forced to obey the laws of my parents. Yes it sucks, but that's life, I'm still too damn young to do anything about it.
I had the Nintendo, then SNES, N64, GB Color, GB Advance SP... then I defected to M$'s Xbox and now the X360. I love them, but I also want to relive my childhood pleasures of Mario and Zelda (and Duck Hunt!).

Carmel: May 26th 2006; 11:23AM

I'm just curious... I've seen many many artists who have done artwork based on or inspired by video games in the art community I belong to... how come this ONE guy is recognized for it? Nothing against this guy... he's pretty good and game art is cool. But there's tons of game artwork out there. I belong to Deviant Art (www.deviantart.com) and there's lots of game related art there if you search.

If anyone remembers this game.... I made myself some Tetris Attack blocks out of clay, so that my hubby and I could play with them and set up different combinations on top of our TV. ^_^ But there's tons more interesting stuff than that if you check out Deviant Art.

Waccoon: May 27th 2006; 3:18AM

Wow. Who would've thought that "Death by JPEG" would someday be art? :)

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