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What Does Pixel Art Mean?

Pixel art is a form of digital art wherein images are created and edited at the pixel level using a graphics editing software. What defines pixel art is its unique visual style, where individual pixels serve as the building blocks that make up the image. The effect is a visual style very similar to that of mosaic art, cross-stitch and other types of embroidery techniques.

Pixel art has existed ever since the first image editing software and the first 2D games with graphics came out, but the term was first published by Robert Flegal and Adele Goldberg of Xerox PARC way back in 1982, although the concept existed 10 years prior such as in the SuperPaint system created by Richard Shoup back in 1972, also at Xerox PARC.