"Super Mario Clouds" is created by Cory Arcangel, which is develop from a famous game "Super Mario". He removed all the characters and design and left only the clouds and blue sky.
Cory Arcangel said that, "I knew that the clouds would be simple enough for people to latch on to, and I knew that in order to make art that dealt with technology, you had to, in a way, have the art not directly be about specific technologies. I mean, we think everyone played Nintendo, but really, hardly anybody played Nintendo. Now looking back on it all – it's about… what do these pixelated clouds represent? It represents the whole progression of humans, communication and technology. But I couldn't write that down. And it became a meme slowly. I put it up and it took years for people to see it, but it worked…"
(The meaning of Super Mario Clouds 12.7.2009)
Art doesn't have to mean anything. This is the conclusion on The Guardian's Keith Stuart.
Some people may think that videogames is just a game, it not art. But I think Cory's work is different. He have the intention to do his art work, he want people focus more on the background, but not only the game. There is meaning for the clouds too.
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