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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 classic sculptures and paintings in Minecraft.



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



The Minecraft version of Derain's painting "The Pool of London" depicts a portion of river Thames where ships are unloading cargo or other goods.



The map allows users to explore London along the Thames in the same way as Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906 to paint the painting he had originally created.



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Markus Persson created Minecraft in 2009 prior to its release to the public in November of 2011.



The game is available on Xbox and PC. Players can fly, walk, and build models with little pixelated blocks.



It's the top online game on Xbox Live, with over two billion hours of gaming on Xbox 360 in the last two years. There are also nearly 17 million copies sold.



Earlier 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 company was not about money. It's about my mental health.



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



"By reimagining art through play in Tate Worlds for Minecraft we hope to introduce a new generation to works that inspire from Tate's collection.'
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The Tate Worlds virtual environments, or'maps', are built on sculptures' paintings from the Tate Collection.



The players of the game can play and explore tasks and challenges that are related to the themes of the artwork or learn about how they were created.



You can already download the first Tate Worlds maps for free.



The two maps that preceded them were inspired by Andre derain's 1906 London painting, The Pool of London. Christopher Nevinson's 1920 New York painting, Soul of the Soulless City, is the source of inspiration.



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When they enter the Tate Worlds map, Minecraft players will board a train taking them past New York landmarks of the past, before they whirl towards the future as skyscrapers go up and up in the sky,' the Tate said.



Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity is a futurist-inspired painting that Nevinson was inspired by. The viewers will be transported to the rapidly changing, bustling 1920s New York as shown 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 cruising into the future as the towers go up and down.



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



The painting was painted in 1920. Tate says of the painting: 'New York in the 1920s was a bustling and constantly changing place.



"Its rising railways, skyscrapers, and other infrastructures epitomized the energy of the metropolitan area of today. This was the catalyst that led Christopher Nevinson, a British artist to paint the Soul of the Soulless City in 1920.



Six more Tate Worlds maps on the themes of "Play", "Destruction" and "Fantasy" will be released over the next year. They are inspired by well-known 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 the user to explore London along the Thames as Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906.



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



"Starting at London Bridge, visit historic landmarks like The Tower of London; climb The Queens Pipe's chimney in St Katharine's Dock; then plunge into the forgotten river Nickinger that flows beneath the city, while you look for the pigments of Monsieur Derain,' the Tate said in its statement.


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