![]() ![]() It has captivated millions of children and young people across the world. Jane Burton, Creative Director, Tate Media said: “Minecraft is a wonderful game which embraces imagination and creativity. Six more Tate Worlds maps will be released over the coming year on the themes of ‘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 sights and sounds of the ‘roaring twenties’ will accompany the journey as the players build a skyscraper, join construction workers for a dangerous sky-high lunch, and race to catch a movie. ![]() 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 into the future as the skyscrapers go up and up. In Tate Worlds: Soul of the Soulless City, inspired by the futurist-style painting by Nevinson, players will enter the bustling and fast-changing place of 1920s New York, as depicted in the painting. Tate Worlds offers gamers a unique experience combining art, history and adventure. ![]() Focusing on the theme of ‘Cities’ the first two maps are inspired by André Derain’s 1906 painting of London, The Pool of London, and Christopher Nevinson’s 1920 painting of New York, Soul of the Soulless City. The first Tate Worlds maps will be available to download for free online at from Monday 24 November 2014. Players of the video game can explore and undertake activities and challenges that relate to the themes of the art work, or explore how they were made. The virtual environments or ‘maps’ known as Tate Worlds are based on paintings and sculptures in the Tate Collection. Tate has teamed up with leading Minecraft mapmakers to create virtual 3-D worlds inspired by artworks. ![]()
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