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Pretoria GeoArt P05 - Art Cubes Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 5/31/2014
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


PRETORIA GeoArt Series


Welcome to PRETORIA!

 

The Pretoria geocaching community is very proud to present PRETORIA, the largest GeoArt series to date in South Africa. 

 

Aside from its rich cultural history, Pretoria is also home to an extremely active geocaching community.  The Pretoria geocachers are a very social bunch and meet at least once every month to share stories, swap experiences and trackables and enjoy each other's company.  During one of our get-togethers, the idea of putting our beautiful city well and truly on the geocaching map was born.  It started off as a small idea but we soon realised that it would be a huge undertaking.  When the call for interested parties went out, the local community responded true to spirited Pretoria form and soon all 85 caches were allocated to 21 different teams.  The PRETORIA GeoArt community project commenced in January 2014 and was completed six months later in June 2014. 

 

We hope you will enjoy exploring our beautiful city of PRETORIA.

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We live in a very exciting visual world of art today! We are surrounded by graphic art on billboards, product packaging, logos, magazines, etc. The technology to create and view spectacular animations and 3D movies is improving all the time. We are fortunate that the heritage of timeless paintings, sculptures and buildings are lovingly preserved in many countries, while amazing modern works of art and buildings are created at the same time.  

The art cubes in the gallery show a small collection of the many forms of art that is available today.

To solve the puzzle you'll need to identify the 6 art works and do some basic research about them.

Visual Art Cube:

A.      What is the height in centimetres of this original oil painting that is in the Louvre museum in Paris?

B.      Mickey Mouse was the first Disney character that was created by Walt Disney. In which year?

C.      This large-scale steel sculpture was created by a well-known South African sculptor. On which birthday did he celebrate the opening of a museum in his honour at the University of Pretoria?

 

 

Graphic Art Cube:

D.      Tableware and home accessories will never be the same since they have been changed into works of art by this functional designer. She is an alumni of the University of Pretoria. When did she start to produce this range?

E.       A small car of this brand was a movie star. What was the number on the car?

F.       The 2nd Mega event in South Africa features an elephant in the logo and supports the Elephant Trust.  On which date does the Mega event start in October 2014?

 

Cache coordinates:

The cache is not at the listed coordinates. It can be found at:

S 25 ̊ [E - 8]. [B/2 - A - C + 22]

E 028 ̊[F x 3]. [(D - 1900) x 10]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ab uvag.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)