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Tate Museum Recreates Paintings and Scuptures as Part of the Work Done In Minecraft

The Tate Museum has worked with game developers on computers to recreate some of its iconic paintings and sculptures in Minecraft.



Players can download the entire world on their computers to explore, and play games as they move through the world.



The Minecraft version of Derain's painting "The Pool of London" depicts a part of the river Thames where ships unloaded cargo or other goods.



This map lets you explore London along Thames, just as Andre Derain, a Fauvist painter, did in 1906 to paint the original painting.



MINECRAFT AND Microsoft



Minecraft was created by Markus Persson in 2009, before releasing it to the world in November 2011.



The players of the game which is available on PC and Xbox can traverse different terrains, fly and create models with tiny pixels-filled blocks.



It's the most played online game on Xbox Live with more than two billion hours played in the last two years and nearly 17 million copies sold.



Microsoft bought Mr . Persson's Mojang company and the game earlier this year for $2.5 billion (PS1.5billion).



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"It has been awe-inspiring to millions of children and young people across the globe.



"In playing with the idea of reimagining art at Tate Worlds for Minecraft, we hope to introduce young people to works that inspire from Tate's collection.



The virtual worlds or "maps are referred to as Tate Worlds are based on sculptures and paintings in the Tate Collection.



Players of the video game can engage in tasks and challenges that are related to the themes of the art work, or explore how they were made.



You can download the first Tate Worlds maps for free.



The first two maps were inspired by Andre Derain's 1906 painting of London, The Pool of London, and Christopher Nevinson's painting of New York, Soul of the Soulless City.



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"Minecraft players will take a train ride that will take them through New York landmarks before they journey into the future, as the skyscrapers rise and fall," the Tate stated.



Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity is a futurist-style painting that Nevinson was influenced by. The participants will step into the rapidly changing, bustling 1920s New York as shown in the painting.



When they enter the Tate Worlds map, Minecraft players will board trains that will take them past New York landmarks of the past, before they whirl into the future as the skyscrapers go up and up.



The sights and sounds of the 'roaring 20s will be part of the adventure as the players build a skyscraper, join construction workers for a dangerous high-altitude lunch, and race to catch a movie.'



The Tate said of the painting "New York in 1920 was a bustling and rapidly-changing place."



"Its rising railways, skyscrapers and other infrastructures exemplified the dynamism of the metropolitan area of today. This inspired Christopher Nevinson, a British artist, to paint Soul of the Soulless City in 1920.



Six more Tate Worlds maps on the themes of "Play", "Destruction" and "Fantasy" will be released in the coming year. They are inspired by famous artworks such as 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 in 1822 and Cornelia Parker’s, Cold Dark Matter, 1991.



The second map allows the user to explore London along the Thames like Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906.



Derain's painting of "The Pool of London", a stretch of the the river Thames where ships are unloaded with cargo or goods, entices you to explore historical landmarks in a vividly colored world, much like the painting.



Starting at London Bridge, visit historic landmarks like The Tower of London; climb the chimney of 'The Queens Pipe' at St Katharine's Dock; and descend into the river that is largely forgotten Nickinger which flows beneath the city while you look for the paints Monsieur Derain used in his painting The Tate said. Tate said.


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