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 paintings and sculptures 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 in which ships have unloaded cargo or other goods.
This map lets users explore London along Thames exactly as Andre Derain, a Fauvist painter did in 1906 to paint the original painting.
MINECRAFT AND Microsoft
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 most popular online game on Xbox Live, with over two billion hours of gameplay played on Xbox 360 in the last two years - and almost 17 million copies sold. Bonfire
Microsoft purchased Mr. Persson's Mojang business and the game earlier this year for $2.5 billion (PS1.5billion).
He said that the decision to sell the business wasn't about money. It's about my mental health.
"It has captured the imagination of millions of youngsters and young people across the globe.
"In playingfully reimagining art at Tate Worlds for Minecraft, we hope to introduce young people to inspiring works from Tate’s collection.
The Tate Worlds virtual environments, or'maps,' are inspired by sculptures and paintings from the Tate Collection.
Players of the video game can explore and undertake tasks and challenges that are related to the themes of the artwork or discover how they were made.
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.
2
Megapad is coming: New details reveal specifications of 12.2inches... Are these mysterious bangs being heard from both sides of... Bonfire
Intelligent mice with 'half-human' brains' :...
"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 a futurist-inspired painting that Nevinson was influenced by. Players will enter the rapidly changing, bustling 1920s New York as shown in the painting.
Minecraft players will board a train that takes players past New York landmarks before they travel into the future as the skyscrapers rise and fall.
The trip will feature sights and sounds of the roaring 20s, as the players construct a skyscraper and join construction workers for a dangerous sky high lunch. Bonfire Finally, they race to catch a movie.
The Tate said about the painting "New York in 1920 was an extremely busy and fast-changing city."
The rising skyscrapers and trains symbolized 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 will be released over the coming year. They will be themed around 'Play', 'Destruction' and 'Fantasy', inspired by well-known artworks including 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 in the same way as Fauvist painter Andre Derain did in 1906.
Derain's painting of "The Pool of London", a section of the river Thames where ships unloaded cargo or goods, encourages you to look for historical landmarks in a vividly colored world, much as the painting.
Beginning 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 river that is largely forgotten Nickinger that runs beneath the city while you look for the paints Monsieur Derain used in his painting in the Tate Gallery,' Tate said.
