Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

Climate activists have thrown tomato soup over two Sunflowers paintings by Vincent van Gogh, just an hour after two others were jailed for a similar protest action in 2022.

Three supporters of Just Stop Oil walked into the National Gallery in London, where an exhibition of Van Gogh’s collected works is on display, at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, and threw Heinz soup over Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.

The latter was the same work targeted by Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland in 2022. That pair are now among 25 supporters of Just Stop Oil in jail for climate protests.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    And destroying that art so that if we do end up fixing it and living we still can’t have it isn’t a good look, imo.

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      3 months ago

      It was behind glass. A janitor had to take some Windex to it. The horror!

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          2 months ago

          They never do. It’s always these outrageous headlines, but they never actually harm anything.

          “Just Stop Oil HORRIFICALLY DEFACES STONEHENGE!”

          No, actually they put gentle water washable biodegradable paint on it. It disappeared after the first light mist.