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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.



To explore the worlds players can download these games to their computers and play games as they travel.



Taking inspiration from Derain's painting "The Pool of London" The Minecraft version of the painting depicts a section of the river Thames in which ships unloaded cargo and goods were traded.



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 original painting.



MINECRAFT AND Microsoft



Minecraft was created by Markus Persson in 2009, before releasing it widely in November 2011.



Players of the game, which is accessible on PC and Xbox can explore different terrains, fly , and create models using tiny pixelated blocks.



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



Microsoft bought Mr Persson's Mojang company and 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 money. It's about my mental health.



"It has captured the imagination of millions of youngsters and young people across the world.



'In playfully reimagining art in Tate Worlds for Minecraft we hope to introduce new generations to works that inspire from Tate's collection.'



The virtual environments , also known as'maps' known as Tate Worlds are based on sculptures and paintings in the Tate Collection.



The players of the video game can play and explore challenges and activities that relate to the themes of the artwork or learn about the process of making them.



You can download the first Tate Worlds maps for free.



The two maps that preceded them are inspired by Andre Derain's 1906 drawing 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 trains that take them through New York landmarks of the time, before they roller-coast into the future as towers go up and down according to the Tate said.



Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity is a futurist-style painting that Nevinson inspired. The viewers will be transported to the bustling, fast-changing 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 they roller-coast into the future as skyscrapers go up and up.



The journey will include the sights and sounds of the roaring 20s, as the players build the world's tallest building and join construction workers for a dangerous sky high lunch. MINECRAFT SERVERS Then they are racing to catch a movie.



The Tate said about the painting "New York in 1920 was an ever-changing and bustling city."



"Its rising railways, skyscrapers and other infrastructures symbolized the energy of the modern urban area. This has inspired Christopher Nevinson, a British artist, to paint Soul of the Soulless City in the year 1920.



Six more Tate Worlds maps will be released in the coming year, focusing on themes such as 'Play', 'Destruction' and 'Fantasy', inspired 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 visitors to explore London along the Thames in the same way 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 goods were traded, discover historical landmarks in a brightly colored world, just like the painting itself.



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


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