Mona Lisa To Sunflowers: 6 Famous Paintings Attacked By Climate Activists
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In October 2022, two activists from the Just Stop Oil group emptied cans of tomato soup over the glass protecting Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers".
The dousing of a glass-covered Mona Lisa in pumpkin soup is the latest in a string of cases of priceless artworks being targeted by environmental activists. We make this #Monet the stage and the public the audience.If it takes a painting – with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all:Then we'll give you #MashedPotatoes on a painting! pic.twitter.com/HBeZL69QTZ ~~~~🥫🥫ART ATTACK AGAINMan covered in tomato soup, glues head to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in The HagueI meann tbh, Hanz & Franz got some weird kinks“let's do that thing where u glue my head to the wall and pour soup on me.”Plz Hanz? In public? Ok Franz. 🥹 pic.twitter.com/mIqqJMt4kg Just Stop Oil Activists attacked a painting by Spanish artist Diego Velazquez at London's National Gallery.🤔 Maybe the artist used oil paint? 🤔🔉 pic.twitter.com/Oyeq6DML6e
Here are some of the other cases that have made headlines in the past two years:
In October 2022, two activists from the Just Stop Oil group emptied cans of tomato soup over the glass protecting Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London's National Gallery.
