The glass-covered Mona Lisa was dunked in pumpkin soup in the latest attack by environmentalists on a series of priceless works of art.
Here are some other cases that have made headlines in the past two years:
“Sunflower” Soup
In October 2022, two Stop Oil activists poured cans of tomato soup onto the glass protecting Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at London’s National Gallery.
The two complained that art lovers cared more about their paintings than the planet and were arrested and charged with damaging the frames.
A month later, activists from the “Last Generation” group poured pea soup on another Van Gogh, “The Sower,” in Rome.
The painting was on display behind glass and was also undamaged.
Monet’s mix
we do this #Monet stage and public audience.
If a painting is needed – with #Mashed potatoes or #tomatosoup Throw it in – Let society remember that fossil fuel processes are killing us all:
then we will give you #Mashed potatoes On a painting! pic.twitter.com/HBeZL69QTZ
– Last Generation (@AufstandLastGen) October 23, 2022
In October 2022, protesters from the German chapter of the Last Generation threw mushy objects at Claude Monet’s “Haystack” hanging in the Potsdam Museum. It is also protected by glass.
In June 2023, activists in Stockholm smeared red paint and glued their hands to the glass of “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny” in a Swedish museum.
stuck to vermeer
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🥫🥫Art strikes again
A man covered in tomato soup glues his head to Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in The Hague
I mean honestly, Hands and Franz have some weird quirks
“Let’s do that thing and stick my head to the wall and pour soup on me.”
Hands please? Publicly; in public? Okay, Franz. 🥹 pic.twitter.com/mIqqJMt4kg
—Cornerstone Analysis 🛢Macro Oil 🗣Oliver Parsons (@CornerstoneOil) October 27, 2022
In October 2022, a man in The Hague, Netherlands, glued his head to the glass protecting Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” at the Mauritshuis museum.
Another activist poured tomato soup over it.
Practice with Goya
In November 2022, two Extinction Rebellion activists each glued a hand to the frames of two paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
The protests did not damage any paintings.
Painting Degas
In April 2023, climate activists attacked the famous Degas wax figure “La petite danseuse de quatorze ans” (The Little Dancer of 14) at a Washington museum, covering its Plexiglas case with red and black paint.
“Today, through civil disobedience, we temporarily desecrated a work of art to evoke the memories of real children whose suffering is certain if deadly fossil fuel companies continue to extract coal, oil, and natural gas from the soil.” , the group claimed the action, writing on Instagram, calling itself “declaring a state of emergency.”
Give Velázquez the hammer
Stop Oil campaigners attacked a painting by Spanish artist Diego Velazquez in London’s National Gallery. 🤔 Maybe the artist used oil paints? 🤔
🔉 pic.twitter.com/Oyeq6DML6e— TheRealBiffBifford 🇺🇸 (@TBifford) November 7, 2023
In November 2023, “Stop Oil” protesters used hammers to smash the glass cover of Diego Velazquez’s painting “The Rokeby Venus” in London’s National Gallery.
They said they were inspired by the work of a suffragette who axed the painting during a suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
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