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

The Tate Museum has worked with computer game makers to recreate some of its iconic sculptures and paintings in Minecraft.



Players can download the worlds to their computer to explore, and play games as they move through the world.



Drawing inspiration from the painting of Derain called 'The Pool of London', the Minecraft version of the painting shows a section of the river Thames where ships were unloaded cargo and goods were traded.



The map allows users to explore London along the Thames as Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906 to create the original painting



MINECRAFT AND Microsoft



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



The game is available on Xbox and PC. Players can fly through the air, walk, and construct models using tiny blocks.



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



In the course of this year, Microsoft snapped up Mr Persson's company Mojang - and the game - for an estimated $2.5 billion (PS1.5 billion).



He explained that the decision to sell the business wasn't about the money. It's about my sanity.



"It has attracted the attention of millions of youngsters and young people all over the globe.



"In creating art in a playful way at Tate Worlds for Minecraft, we hope to introduce new generations to inspiring works from Tate’s collection.



The Tate Worlds virtual environments, or'maps', are based on paintings of sculptures from the Tate Collection.



The video game lets players to play and take on challenges and activities that are related to the themes and how they were developed.



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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'On entering the Tate Worlds map, Minecraft players will board a train taking them past New York landmarks of the time, before they roller-coast into the future as towers go up and down according to the Tate stated.



Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity is a futurist-style painting that Nevinson was inspired by. The viewers will be transported to the busy, fast-changing 1920s New York as shown in the painting.



When they arrive on the Tate Worlds map, Minecraft players will board an train that takes them through New York landmarks of the time, before they roller-coast into the future as the towers go up and down.



The sounds and sights of the 'roaring 20s will be a part of the experience as the players construct a tower, join construction workers for a shaky high-altitude lunch, and race to catch a film.'



The Tate said of the painting "New York in 1920 was an extremely busy and fast-changing city."



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



Six more Tate Worlds maps will be released in the coming year, focusing on themes such as 'Play', 'Destruction' and 'Fantasy'. The themes are influenced by well-known paintings, 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, 1822; and Cornelia Parker's, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991.



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



Drawing inspiration from the painting of Derain's 'The Pool of London', one of the sections of the river Thames where ships unloaded cargo and goods were traded, discover historical landmarks set in a vividly coloured world, as the painting itself.
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'Starting at London Bridge, visit historic landmarks like The Tower of London; climb 'The Queens Pipe' chimney at St Katharine's Dock; and descend into the river that is largely forgotten Nickinger which flows beneath the city whilst you look for the paints Monsieur Derain used in his painting The Tate said. Tate said.


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