Minecraft Video Game to Get Tate Art Worlds

Minecraft video game to unlock Tate art "worlds" By Reuters

Published at 07:40 EDT on November 20, 2014. Updated: 07:40 EDT on 20 November 2014.

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By Michael Roddy

LONDON 20 November (Reuters) - Fans of the hugely popular Minecraft video game will be able to experience inside worlds envisioned in art from the collection of the Tate museums in Britain with the free-download release of two 3-D "Tate Worlds" starting on Monday. RONMAIL

Minecraft is a game that allows players to construct almost anything block by block in digital space. Ron mail 1 It was developed by Mojang in Sweden.

Jane Burton, Tate Media's Creative Director, stated that "Minecraft" is an amazing game that inspires imagination and creativity in a statement issued on Thursday.

"It has been awe-inspiring for millions of children and young people across the globe. We hope to inspire a new generation through Tate Worlds for Minecraft by reinventing art in Tate Worlds for Minecraft.

The two paintings that inspired the Tate worlds are Andre derain's 1906 painting "The Pool of London" and Christopher Nevinson's painting of 1920 of New York, "Soul of the City with no Soul".

Derain's painting is a scene of a cargo vessel and tenders, with London's famous Tower Bridge in the background The Nevinson shows skyscrapers with the tracks of an elevated rail line beginning in the foreground, and running into the distance.

In "Tate Worlds: Soul of the Soulless City" players enter the 1920s New York depicted in the painting and board a train that takes them through New York landmarks of the time, and then speed to the future as skyscrapers are rising all around, Tate said.

The museum announced that "the sights and sounds of the 'Roaring 20s" will accompany the journey as players build the world's tallest building and join construction workers for a gruelling sky-high lunch and race to catch a film."

The museum announced that six more "Tate Worlds" maps will be released in the next year, with the themes of "Play", 'Destruction" and "Fantasy". These maps were inspired by well-known artworks.

They include 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 "Tate Worlds" were created in conjunction with "leading Minecraft mapmakers", the museum said, and will be available for download at (www.tate.org.uk/tateworlds).

Microsoft announced that it was buying Mojang for $2.5 Billion in September.