A determined Minecraft player recreated various cats painted by Picasso, spreading the work across an entire chunk of the game's randomly generated world. Mojang's survival sandbox title gives players the tools and resources to bring their ideas to life, or potentially recreate works of real-world art. For example, a Minecraft recreation of Alexandre Cabanel's Fallen Angel painting demonstrates the dedication and creativity of the title's loyal playerbase.
While Minecraft's accessibility means that a huge variety of gamers can enjoy the experience, the title's truly dedicated fans are able to achieve unbelievable feats of planning and determination. For example, the Minecraft version of the Fallen Angel painting does not simply reprint Alexandre Cabanel's masterpiece. Instead, the in-game version of the painting actually adds depth and texture, turning the two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional design. Scale is also a huge factor in many Minecraft works, since the survival sandbox gives players nearly endless space to work. Displaying this grand scale, Minecraft map art of the Pillars of Creation space photo recreates the iconic Hubble Telescope image over a square landscape 2,048 blocks in length.
In another display of large-scale Minecraft art, Reddit user Richard_Stink recently shared a blocky recreation of Pablo Picasso's cats. The Spanish Cubist painter included cats in many of his works, particular a series of reinterpretations titled Las Meninas. Putting several of these bizarre feline designs into a collage, Richard_Stink then recreated that design across an entire chunk of Minecraft's world. A map is then used to display a top-down perspective of the entire chunk, allowing the creator to display their amazing abstract art on the wall of their digital home.
While blocky recreations of real-world art have become a Minecraft staple, the title's playerbase has also tackled many projects based on purely fictional architecture. A Minecraft build of Star Wars' Tatooine was one particularly large and detailed undertaking, but the results are impossible to ignore. The project is a fully explorable recreation of the franchise's iconic desert planet, including modeled and accessible building interiors. Many of the seedy hive's most recognizable landmarks, like The Phantom Menace's Podrace Track and Jabba's Palace from Return of the Jedi, are among the sci-fi staples included in the build.
Minecraft's tools and resources allow players to plan truly epic builds, but the fanbase's determination and skill are able to bring these plans to life. Pablo Picasso's infamously abstract style has led to some very strange interpretations of cats, and Richard_Stinks celebrates that fact with a large-scale Minecraft build. Spread across an entire chunk of map, Picasso's cats are just as abstract in Minecraft as they are in the original paintings.
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Source: Richard_Stink/Reddit