Tate Museum Recreates Paintings and Scuptures as Part of the Work Done In Minecraft
The Tate Museum has worked with computer game makers to recreate some of its iconic paintings and sculptures in Minecraft.
To explore the world players can download these games to their computers and play games while they travel.
The Minecraft version of Derain's painting "The Pool of London" depicts a portion of river Thames where ships are unloading cargo or other goods.
This map allows users to explore London along Thames the same way as Andre Derain, a Fauvist painter was able to do in 1906 to create the original painting.
MINECRAFT AND Microsoft
Markus Persson created Minecraft in 2009 before it was released widely in November of 2011.
The game is available on Xbox and PC. Players can fly or walk around and create models using tiny pixelated 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 nearly 17 million copies sold in total.
In the last quarter of the year, Microsoft snapped up Mr Persson's company, Mojang and the game for an estimated $2.5 billion (PS1.5 billion).
He said the decision to sell the company was not about the money. It's about my sanity.
"It has attracted the attention of millions of youngsters and young people across the globe.
"By reimagining art through play in Tate Worlds for Minecraft we hope to introduce a new generation to inspirational works from Tate's collection.'
The virtual environments , also known as'maps are referred to as Tate Worlds are based on sculptures and paintings in the Tate Collection.
The players of the game can explore and undertake tasks and challenges that are related to the themes of the artwork or learn about how they were made.
You can download the first Tate Worlds maps for free.
The first two maps 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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When they enter the Tate Worlds map, Minecraft players will board a train taking them past New York landmarks of the time, before cruising into the future as towers go up and down according to the Tate stated.
In Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity, inspired by the futurist style painting by Nevinson, players will enter the bustling, fast-changing and dynamic city of 1920s New York, as depicted in the painting.
When they arrive on 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 the skyscrapers go up and up.
The sounds and sights of the 'roaring 20s' will accompany the journey as the participants build a skyscraper, meet construction workers for a shaky sky-high lunch, and then race to catch a film.'
The painting was completed in 1920. Tate says of the painting: 'New York in the 1920s was a bustling, fast-changing place.
The rising skyscrapers and trains were a symbol of the energy 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 will be released in the next year on the themes of '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 users to explore London along the Thames like Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906.
Taking inspiration from the painting of Derain's "The Pool of London', one of the sections of the river Thames in which ships unloaded cargo and trade took place, you can discover historical landmarks in a brightly colored world, just as the painting itself.
'Starting at London Bridge, visit historic landmarks like The Tower of London; climb the chimney of 'The Queens Pipe' at St Katharine's Dock; and descend into the enigmatic river Nickinger which flows beneath the city while you look for the pigments Monsieur Derain used in his painting The Tate said. Tate said.