The Tate Museum has worked with game developers on computers to recreate some of its classic sculptures and paintings in Minecraft.
Players can download the worlds on their computers to explore, or play games as they move through the world.
Taking inspiration from Derain's painting 'The Pool of London' The Minecraft version of the painting depicts a section of the river Thames in which ships unloaded cargo and goods were traded.
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This map lets users explore London along Thames, just as Andre Derain, a Fauvist painter was able to do in 1906 to paint the original painting.
MINECRAFT AND MICROSOFT
Minecraft was created by Markus Persson in 2009, before releasing it widely in November 2011.
The game is available on Xbox and PC. Players can fly or walk around and create models using tiny 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.
Microsoft bought Mr Persson's Mojang company and the game in the last quarter of this year for $2.5 billion (PS1.5billion).
He said the decision to sell the company was not about the money. It's about my sanity.
"It has caught the imagination of millions of children and young people around the globe.
'In playfully reimagining art in Tate Worlds for Minecraft we hope to bring a new generation of people to works that inspire from Tate's collection.'
The virtual environments , also known as'maps are referred to as Tate Worlds are based on paintings and sculptures in the Tate Collection.
The game's video allows players to play and tackle challenges and activities that relate to the themes and how they were developed.
The first Tate Worlds maps are already available for download for a nominal fee.
The first two maps were inspired by Andre Derain's 1906 painting of London, The Pool of London, and Christopher Nevinson's 1920 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 past, before they whirl into the future as skyscrapers rise and fall,' the Tate stated.
Tate Worlds: Soul of the SoullessCity is an abstract painting in the style of Nevinson inspired. The participants will step into the bustling, fast-changing 1920s New York as shown in the painting.
Minecraft players will board a train that takes them past New York landmarks before they ride into the future, as the skyscrapers rise and fall.
The trip will include sights and sounds from the roaring 20s, as the players construct an impressive skyscraper. They also join construction workers for a risky sky-high lunch. Finally they must race to catch a film.
The painting was completed in 1920. Tate describes the painting as follows"New York in the 1920s was a bustling and rapidly changing city.
"Its rising railways, skyscrapers, and other infrastructures exemplified the dynamism of the modern urban area. This has inspired Christopher Nevinson, a British artist to paint 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 visitors 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 in which ships have unloaded cargo or goods, inspires you to discover historical landmarks in a vividly colored world, just like the painting.
"Starting at London Bridge, visit historic landmarks like The Tower of London; climb The Queens Pipe's chimney in St Katharine's Dock; then descend into the forgotten river Nickinger that runs underneath the city, while you search for Monsieur Derain's pigments in the Tate's collection. Tate stated.
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