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Tate Museum Recreates Paintings and Scuptures as Workds In Minecraft

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



The players can download the world to their computer to explore, or play games while they travel around the world.



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



This map lets users explore London along Thames, just as Andre Derain, a Fauvist painter did in 1906 to create the painting that inspired it.



MINECRAFT and Microsoft



Minecraft was developed 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 with little pixelated blocks.



It's the most downloaded online game on Xbox Live with more than two billion hours played in the last two years and nearly 17 million copies sold.
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Earlier this year, Microsoft snapped up Mr Persson's company, Mojang and the game for an estimated $2.5 billion (PS1.5 billion).



He stated that the decision to sell the company was not about the money. It's about my sanity.



"It has caught the imagination of millions of youngsters and young people all over the globe.



"By playing with the idea of reimagining art in Tate Worlds for Minecraft we hope to bring a new generation of people to inspirational works from Tate's collection.'



The Tate Worlds virtual environments, or'maps', are inspired by sculptures and paintings from the Tate Collection.



The game's video allows players to play and take on challenges and activities that relate to the themes and the way they were developed.



The first Tate Worlds maps are already available to download for free.



The two maps in the beginning were inspired by the work of Andre Derain's 1906 London painting, The Pool of London. Christopher Nevinson's 1920 New York painting, Soul of the Soulless City, is the inspiration.



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



In Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity In Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity, a game inspired by the futurist style painting by Nevinson, players will enter the bustling and fast-changing place of 1920s New York, as depicted in the painting.



On entering the Tate Worlds map, Minecraft players will board trains that will take them past New York landmarks of the time, before they roller-coast into the future as skyscrapers rise and fall.



The journey will include the sights and sounds from the 'roaring 20s' as the players construct an impressive skyscraper. They also join construction workers for a shaky sky high lunch. Finally they must race to catch a film.



Painted in 1920, the Tate describes the painting as follows: 'New York in the 1920s was a bustling and constantly changing place.



"Its rising railways, skyscrapers, and other infrastructures exemplified the vitality of the modern urban area. This was the catalyst that led 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 like 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, 1991.



The second map allows users the opportunity to explore London along Thames, as Fauvist painter Andre Derain did back in 1906.



Derain's painting of "The Pool of London", a section of river Thames in which ships have unloaded cargo or goods, entices you to discover historic landmarks in a vibrantly colored world, much as the painting.



'Starting at London Bridge, visit historic sites such as The Tower of London; climb 'The Queens Pipe' chimney at St Katharine's Dock; and descend into the enigmatic river Nickinger that runs beneath the city whilst you look for the pigments Monsieur Derain used in his painting in the Tate Gallery,' Tate said.


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