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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 paintings and sculptures in Minecraft.



To explore the world players can download these games 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 in which ships have unloaded cargo or other goods.



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



MINECRAFT AND MICROSOFT



Markus Persson created Minecraft in 2009 prior to the game being released widely in November 2011.



The players of the game which is accessible on PC and Xbox can walk around various terrains, fly and create models using tiny pixels-filled blocks.



It's the most popular online game on Xbox Live, with over two billion hours played on Xbox 360 in the last two years - and almost 17 million copies sold in total.



In the course of 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 wasn't about the money. It's about my mental health.



It has captured millions of children and young people across the globe.



"In creating art in a playful way at Tate Worlds for Minecraft, we hope to introduce young people to works that inspire from Tate's collection.



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



Players of the video game can explore and undertake challenges and activities that relate to the themes of the artwork or discover how they were created.



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



The two maps that preceded them are inspired by Andre Derain's 1906 painting of London, The Pool of London, and Christopher Nevinson's painting of New York, Soul of the Soulless City.



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"Minecraft players will take a train ride that takes them past New York landmarks before they journey 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 was influenced by. The viewers will be transported to the rapidly changing, bustling 1920s New York as shown in the painting.



Minecraft players take a train ride that will take them past New York landmarks before they journey into the future as the skyscrapers rise and fall.



'The sights and sounds of the 'roaring 20s will be a part of the experience as the players build a skyscraper, meet construction workers for a shaky sky-high lunch, and then race to catch a film.'



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



The emergence of skyscrapers and railways symbolized the energy of the modern metropolis, inspiring 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 1885-2006 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 to explore London along Thames, as Fauvist painter Andre Derain did back in 1906.
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Derain's painting of "The Pool of London", a river Thames in which ships have unloaded cargo or goods, inspires you to look for historical landmarks in a brightly colored world, just like the painting.



"Starting at London Bridge, visit historic places such as The Tower of London; climb the chimney known as 'The Queens Pipe' in St Katharine's Dock; then descend into the river that isn't mentioned Nickinger that flows beneath the city, as you look for Monsieur Derain's paints in the Tate's collection. Tate said in its statement.


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