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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 most famous sculptures and paintings in Minecraft.



To explore the world players can download them onto their computers and play games as they travel.



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



Markus Persson created Minecraft in 2009 before it was released widely in November of 2011.



The players of the game that is accessible on PC and Xbox can traverse different terrains, fly , and create models with tiny pixelated blocks.



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



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



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



It has captured millions of youngsters and children across the world.



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



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



The video game lets players to explore and engage in challenges and activities that relate to the themes and how they were developed.



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



The two maps in the beginning 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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"Minecraft players will board a train that takes them past New York landmarks before they travel into the future as the skyscrapers rise and fall," the Tate stated.



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



Minecraft players take a train ride that will take players past New York landmarks before they journey into the future as the skyscrapers rise and fall.
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The sounds and sights of the 'roaring twenties will be part of the adventure as the players build a skyscraper, meet construction workers for a risky 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."



The emergence of skyscrapers and railways epitomised the dynamism of today's metropolis, provoking British artist Christopher Nevinson to paint his Futurist-style painting Soul of the Soulless City in 1920.'



Six more Tate Worlds maps on the themes of "Play", "Destruction" and "Fantasy" will be released later this year. They are inspired by well-known paintings like John Singer Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose 1885-2006 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 users to explore London along the Thames as Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906.



Taking inspiration from the painting of Derain's 'The Pool of London', a section of the river Thames in which ships unloaded cargo and trade took place, you can discover historic landmarks in a vibrantly colored world, just like the painting itself.



Starting at London Bridge, visit historic sites such as The Tower of London; climb The Queens Pipe's chimney at St Katharine's Dock; and descend into the forgotten river Nickinger which flows beneath the city while you search for the pigments Monsieur Derain used in his painting,' the Tate said.


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