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Why games embraced graffiti
A brief history of street art in the virtual world.
A brief history of street art in the virtual world.
One summer in Paris, I spent a lot of free time in the old master painting wings at the Louvre, but eventually grew tired of the throngs of tourists. I relocated to the empty rooms of ancient Greek relics, where I discovered a small terra cotta statue of a Greek Siren, and thought, “I know I’ve seen this before.” My memory conjured Zelda: Twilight Princess, where loveable Ooccoos help you through dungeons. Further exploration of The Legend of Zelda series provided me with more examples of art history and the games converging. Sirens, in Archaic Greek art, are modeled…