Yes.
All of those things
can be art...
Except the Lamborgini which can only be stupid art, i dont know how else to call it. Its kinda like that video that was posted earlier... Its in the same vein as that. Wtf was the point?
But the rest can certainly
be art... Why not? I bet if Da Vinci made a warhammer figurine it would be considered art, even if it sucked.
I get what youre saying about games... But Hitman videos arent part of the gameplay so they
are art... So the question is can gameplay be art then? Well i dont know... Thinking about this shit makes my brain hurt and i cant do it anymore. I dont think its even worth trying. They dont make good games anymore so whats the point.
nope.
people do not play hitman to appreciate the aesthetic value of the videos. people play the game to have fun dragging bodies into dumpsters.
the game was intended to value gameplay over aesthetics. a game maker will usually have entertainment value as their top priority, and artistry somewhere further down.
For example:
let's say that holes are fashionable right now, and you're a potter. You make a pot that has to hold water, but you also want to make your pot look cool. you add holes, since that's the cool thing to do, but you will never add holes to the lower half of the pot. doing that would make the pot unusable. usability has a higher priority than aesthetics. therefore, that pot really can't be considered an art piece, because the maker designed it to be used, with the holes as a decoration.
a Lamborghini cannot be considered art, because it exists to be used, and usability is more important than aesthetics. The engineers did not add anything to the car that could possibly slow it down just to make it look better. Compromises to looks had to be made to maintain aerodynamics. this is because usability is the top priority. A pretty car that doesn't run, or runs terribly will be considered a piece of shit by a majority of the people who pass judgement on it.
art is only art because it is created for the main purpose of having aesthetic value.
aesthetics: appreciating something based on its own properties independent on how it can be used by people. the paint job of a car is irrelevant to how well it runs, the shape of a flower vase, the design of a box.
Mona Lisa:
art. has no use other than to exist and to be appreciated.
empire state building:
not art. top priority is to be a working building. then decorated to look nice
Lamborghini Miura
not art. top priority is to be fast and to sell a lot of them.
Warhammer figure:
probably not art. top priority is to be used in the game. it could be art if the warhammer game did not exist, then it would fall under figurine/statues, which are art.
Hitman
not art. top priority is to be a working not buggy video game that people will buy. cut scenes being nice is not the top priority.
tldr: just because a thing has some art on if to make it look nice, doesn't make the thing itself art.