Just Stop Oil activists have thrown tomato soup over Van Gogh’s masterpiece Sunflowers at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London.
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The protesters said the demonstration was in relation to the cost of living and climate crises, as they asked: ‘Is art worth more than life?’
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Yep! you have our attention…Now we are not going to listen..
There’s no climate crisis
Security
What in the GCSE drama?
They’re way outta wack
praying they have to serve actual jail time.
Why are you reacting to a 9 month old event tho
"There are people out there that are down to their last bottle of bollinger". It's terrible.
Guess what, glue has oil in it. Gluing protestors are just making the oil companies richer.
I think they were just really big Andy Warhol fans
Are they still glued to the wall?
This utter disrespect of an artist who suffered all his life, only to die an unsuccessful one is beyond my comprehension. What point is she trying to make anyway? Even more, what has she done to contribute for the betterment?
tf van gogh did
That painting now look more interesting now , 😅😂
If you really want to do it, why Van Gogh's? For Gogh's sake, why not Picasso's? Oh, because ppl may not be able to tell the difference – before and after. I see.
Too much
Art
Don't panic. There's a copy available on the way out
They claim to be law-abiding, I guess vandalism is perfectly fine now
Gentle parenting at it’s finest.
I would have been committed a crime right there in that moment
There isn't a 'protest' here, this is vandalism fueled by anger.
Oil is a madman who sits on the shore, morphs into a flamingo, and flys off into the sunset without a care in the world.
You are loved and cherished. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong. If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: You are loved. And if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be, simply: Love.
why did they glue their hands in the most uncomfortable positions though
People can't afford to heat things. So we're going to make it even more expensive by demanding it all go electric, without any fundamental understanding of how the network works, what goes into it, and so on.
targeting a man who suffered and created a masterpiece is so wrong in everyway
yes save the earth.
but please do it in a more right way.
Hope they managed to save that picture 🥺
They did this becuase he used oil paints….
i don't get what van gogh's painting has to do with saving the planet?
When human has gone extinct our remains of culture will be the only thing that alien or future sentient being can use to understand us
Plus
That painting is one of my favourites.
And this is why we can't have nice things 🤨
In a way, art is allegory of life or represenration of life, so, this is an act of destroying or belitteling life itself. I don't think that throwing soup on a canvas is helping this eco cause, donating a can of soup to hungry would benefit more or spread a message more strongly and clearly than vandalizing and humiliating other's nations cultural heritage, because Van Gogh that is. All people on the planet are here and alive today because of the achievements of our predecessors and strive to make this world a better place, to spit and deny their achievements is a bit absurd
Well I don't know about you guys but I'm convinced. I'm going to start a family with a female polar bear and pour petrol back into the Earth.
Its a miracle that just the frame was damaged people who try to wipe out what is to many history shouldnt be allowed to go in to museum's
Art is worth more if life contains you both
I agrree with the concept, just not the way thier spreading awareness
Little disease foolish people know in order to make one battery for an electric car requires 500 super dump truck pullsof lithium ore. This is a thousand times more dangerous to the environment than an oil well now they're finding oil wells that have been empty for years are replenishing go figure
Paid activists
ok but what was the point of throwing soup on the painting
Hey pinked hair girl if u want to save planet don't waste your money on unnatural dye for your hair
They are mass deforestationers for ruining wood aka paper and they wasted soup made my machines that are powered my oil☠💀☠