Tate Museum Recreates Paintings and Scuptures as Workds In Minecraft

The Tate Museum has worked with computer game makers to recreate some of its classic paintings and sculptures in Minecraft.

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

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

This map allows users to 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.

The game is available on Xbox and PC. Players can fly through the air, walk, and construct models using tiny pixelated blocks.

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

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 the money. It's about my sanity.

"It has captured the imagination of millions of children and young people around the globe.

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

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

The video game allows players to explore and tackle tasks and challenges that relate to the themes and the way they were made.

The first Tate Worlds maps are already available to download 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 a train taking them past New York landmarks of the time, before they roller-coast towards the future as skyscrapers go up and up,' the Tate said.

In Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity, inspired by the futurist-style painting by Nevinson players will be able to experience the bustling and rapidly-changing city of 1920s New York, as depicted in the painting.

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 trip will feature sights and sounds from the roaring 20s as the participants build an impressive skyscraper. They also join construction workers for a shaky sky high lunch. Finally, they race to catch a film.

The painting was painted in 1920. Tate describes the painting as follows"New York in the 1920s was a bustling, constantly changing place.
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'Its emerging skyscrapers and railways epitomised the dynamism of the modern city, inspiring British artist Christopher Nevinson to paint his Futurist-style painting Soul of the Soulless City in 1920.'

Six more Tate Worlds maps will be released in the next year on the themes of 'Play', 'Destruction' and 'Fantasy'. The themes are influenced 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 the user to explore London along the Thames like Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906.

Derain's painting of "The Pool of London", a the river Thames in which ships have unloaded cargo or goods, entices you to look for historical landmarks in a brightly colored world, much 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 plunge into the forgotten river Nickinger that flows beneath the city, while you look for Monsieur Derain's pigments in the Tate's collection. Tate stated.