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The Capital
Hash House Harrier Art Gallery is famous for providing its audience
with thought provoking works which, while expressing powerful
emotions, still amuse and entertain. This year, the CH3 Art
Gallery brings you the long-awaited spiritual study of one of
this centuries most recognised Hashmen - "St Mixo, the
Man, the Pose"
Name:
St. Mixo the Whinger
Artist: Capital Hash
School: Australian
Object Type: Digital |
Classic art followers are critical of these two works.
Da Vinci's "St John the Baptist" is a disturbing
representation of a character normally portrayed as
gaunt and fiery, living in a desert and surviving on
a diet of locusts and honey.
In
the case of Capital Hashers' "St Mixo the Whinger",
the subject looks weathered and crazy, after living
on a diet of beer and Hash Nosh.
Both
works have fingers raised, one to Heaven and the other,
to the GM. While St John contains that same enigmatic
smile so admired on the face of Mona Lisa, St Mixo the
Whinger grimaces, probbly in reply to an unfortunate
Hasher who has deviated from trail-laying ettiquette.
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Name:
St. John the Baptist
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
School: Italian
Object Type: Oil on canvas
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Name:
Mixo instrusting Beer
Artist: Capital Hash
School: Australian
Object Type: Digital |
Jean-Claude's
"Juno" has her right arm pointing towards
the heavens, the left leaning on the reclining naked
winged Cupid.
Capital's
"Mixo" has his beautifically erect arm raised
towards Hash Heaven, praying for plentiful beer and
hamstring strength.
Juno
wears a loose gown, pale blue mantle, all richly jewelled,
and beneath them the groun is covered with a red cloth
littered with buds.
Mixo
drapes himself in sunflower yellow, a rich constrast
to the sable bike shorts - strangely reminiscent of
a bumblebee.
Behind
Juno stands a peacock which is her symbol. Behind Mixo,
a Blackdog, the Hash mascot.
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Name:
Juno instrusting Cupid
Artist: Jean-Claude Naigeon 1753-1832
School: French
Object Type: Oil on canvas
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Name:
Appeal to the Great GM
Artist: Capital Hash
School: Australian
Object Type: Digital |
Dallin,
renowed sculptor of Indian men, is probably best known
for his work "Appeal to the Great Spirit".
Capital
Hash is renowed for the work "Appeal to the Great
GM", an artful depiction of respect and beer swilling.
Dallin
created a model of Sacajawea, showing him stepping forward,
one arm at his side, the other extended, pointing the
way for the mounted explorers.
Capital's
digital representation captures Mixo standing casually,
yet at tight attention, again in bumblebee attire. His
left arm extends towards the Grand Master, appealing
for greater down-down punishment. The other arm grasps,
with a choking dead-man's grip, a chilled Tooheys Old.
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Name:
Appeal to th Great Spirit
Artist: Cyrus Dallin 1914
School: America
Object Type: Stone
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Name:
St. Mixo the Drunk
Artist: Capital Hash
School: Australian
Object Type: Digital |
Grazzi's
"St John the Baptist" is shown threequarters
length, seated and nude from the waist up, except for
his right shoulder which is uncovered.
Capital's
"St Mixo the Drunk" is also captured in threequarter
length, standing and . . . hopefully not nude.
St
John's right arm is stretched across his body, with
the hand pointing to a cross with a scroll inscribed
ECCE AGNUS DEI. St Mixo's left arm is held rigidly to
the front, like a sword, pointing a charge towards an
unfortunate Hasher.
St
John's left hand holds the cross lower down, at the
right is the head of a lamb. In St Mixo's other hand,
a glass of sweet nector, at his left, a Barbaraaaa head.
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Name:
St. John the Baptist
Artist: Nicola Grazzi c1682-c1750
School: Italian
Object Type: Oil on canvas
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Name:
Hash Memorial Statue
Artist: Capital Hash
School: Australian
Object Type: Digital |
Commissioned
by Nagasaki City, the famous Peace Memorial Statue features
a man, with his right arm pointing towards the sky to
indicate the continued threat of nuclear destruction.
Commissioned
by Capital, the Hash Memorial Statue points his left
arm towards a trail marking rule breaker, a continued
threat in the Hash which can lead to confusion and Mixo's
wrath.
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Name:
Peace Memorial Statue
Artist: Nagasaki City
School: Japanese
Object Type: Marble
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