This Friday morning, October 14, two environmental activists from the Just Stop Oil movement threw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s masterpiece “Sunflowers”, exhibited at the National Gallery in London. According to images published on Twitter, the environmental group, through the two young girls and their act, calls for the immediate cessation of any new oil or gas project. The painting by the Dutch painter is estimated at more than 84 million dollars. Fortunately, it is protected by a thin glass.
Very quickly, the reactions gushed on the Web. “These JUMPS of environmentalists must be punished with the utmost severity Environmental activists have thrown soup on “Les Sunflowers “by Van Gogh, masterpiece worth 84 million dollars”, reacted the doctor Laurent Alexandre. “As much as I find this mode of action deplorable, it is important to remember right away that Sunflowers are protected by glass and have apparently not been damaged.“, pointed out a netizen. “Which shows that radical environmentalism and the Taliban have one thing in common: the hatred of culture, heritage, beauty.“, launched the former deputy Les Républicains Julien Aubert.
The Mona Lisa vandalized a few months ago in Paris
An act which is reminiscent of that committed at the Louvre Museum last spring. The famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, exhibited in the Parisian museum, had been the victim of vandalism on May 30. Its protective glass had been the target of a cream pie, presumably thrown by a man from a wheelchair. An act without consequence since the painting is placed behind armored glass. The images of the painting of Van Gogh doused with tomato soup are to be discovered in the link below.
https://twitter.com/damiengayle/status/1580864210741133312
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