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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 classic sculptures and paintings in Minecraft.



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



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



This map lets you explore London along Thames the same way as Andre Derain, a Fauvist painter did in 1906 to paint the painting that inspired it.



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



Players of the game, which is available on PC and Xbox can walk around different terrains, fly and build models using little pixelated blocks.



It's the top online game on Xbox Live, with over two billion hours of gameplay played on Xbox 360 in the last two years, and nearly 17 million copies sold.



Microsoft bought Mr Persson's Mojang business and the game in the last quarter of this year for $2.5 billion (PS1.5billion).



He said that the decision to sell the company was not about the money. It's about my sanity.
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"It has captured the imagination of millions of children and young people around the globe.



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



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



The players of the game can explore and undertake tasks and challenges that are related to the themes of the art work, or explore the process of making them.



The first Tate Worlds maps are already available for download 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 inspiration.



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



Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity is an abstract painting in the style of Nevinson inspired. The participants will step into 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 past, before they whirl towards the future as skyscrapers go up and up.



'The sights and sounds of the 'roaring twenties' will accompany the journey as the players build a skyscraper, join construction workers for a risky high-altitude lunch, and race to catch a film.'



The painting was completed in 1920. Tate describes the painting as follows"New York in the 1920s was a bustling, rapidly changing city.



The emergence of skyscrapers and railways epitomised the dynamism of the modern 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 over the next year. They are inspired by well-known 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 users to explore London along the Thames in the same way as Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906.



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



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


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