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Minecraft Video Game to Get Tate Art Worlds

Minecraft video game to earn Tate art "worlds" By Reuters



Updated: 07:40 EDT, 20 November 2014



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By Michael Roddy



LONDON 20 November (Reuters) The players of the hugely successful Minecraft video game will be able to play inside worlds envisioned in art from the collection of the Tate museums in Britain with free-download releases of two 3-D "Tate Worlds" beginning on Monday.



Minecraft players Minecraft, developed by Swedish company Mojang, can build nearly everything you can imagine block by block in a virtual world.



"Minecraft is a wonderful game which embraces imagination and creativity," Jane Burton, Creative Director of Tate Media, said in an announcement on Thursday.



It has attracted the attention of millions of young people across the globe. Through the imaginative reimagining of art in Tate Worlds for Minecraft we hope to bring a new generation of people to works that inspire from Tate's collection."



The first two paintings inspiring the Tate worlds are the work of Andre Derain in 1906 painting "The Pool of London" and Christopher Nevinson's 1920 painting of New York, "Soul of the City with no Soul".
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Derain's painting is an image of a cargo vessel and tenders with London's famous Tower Bridge in the background and the Nevinson depicts skyscrapers and the tracks of an elevated rail line that begins in the foreground, and running into the distance.



In "Tate Worlds: Soul of the Soulless City" players take a trip through the 1920s New York depicted in the painting and board a train to take them past New York landmarks of the time, then fast forward into the future as skyscrapers rise all around, Tate said.



"The sights and sounds of the 'Roaring 20s' will accompany the journey as the players construct a skyscraper, join construction workers for a shaky high-altitude lunch, and try to catch a film," the museum said.



Six more "Tate Worlds" maps will be released in the coming year on the themes of 'Play', 'Destruction' and 'Fantasy', inspired by well-known artworks the museum said.



They include John Singer Sargent's "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose” (1885-6), Peter Blake’s "The Toy Shop" (1962) John Martin's "The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum” (1822), and Cornelia Parker's "Cold Dark Matter An Exploded View" (1991).



The "Tate Worlds" were created in conjunction with "leading Minecraft mapmakers", the museum said, and will be available for download at (www.tate.org.uk/tateworlds).



Microsoft announced that it would purchase Mojang for $2.5 Billion in September.


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