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The Mona Lisa, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Monet’s Haystacks… These works have been the target of climate activists. Spectacular actions with cream pie or mashed potatoes. But can the climate emergency justify everything?
“The time for words is over, now is the time for action”launches a climate activist. Then another activist by her side throws a pie at the statue of King Charles III at the wax museum in London (UK)Monday, October 24. The act is signed “Just stop oil” (Stop to fossil fuels). Sundayit’s a painting by Claude Monet worth 76 million euros that has been covered in mashed potatoes by other German activists. “It will attract attention but it will attract it in a bad way”thinks a man. “I don’t know if the art has anything to do with the subject”continues another.
“Since, obviously, it does not seem to shock, the fact that it is 20°C in Paris in October and 35°C in the South, maybe tackling things that affect more (…) it also has this value of making this fight visible and this urgency to be led”says Mary Chureauenvironmental activist. None work hasn’t really been damaged because they are protected by glass.