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.
Have we considered that these protests are astroturfing by big professional art-restoration backers?
We’ve considered they’re astroturfing for big oil, yes.
Ahhh… big oil paint dollars.
Well, that, and hindering the climate change movement by making everyone look like complete moronic twits.
Money well spent, obvs.
Really easy to do when most people’s first reaction is to express concern over a painting than “hey, maybe we need a big shift in how we generate energy or we’re all screwed”. The actual useful idiots.
Oh yes, because that’s the dichotomy here. It’s either we vandalize irreplaceable paintings, or we die from climate change.
Or maybe one is entirely unrelated to the other, and this is the equivalent of jacking off in public and claiming to have participated in the fight against world hunger.
Well, like others have said, they previously tried to apply the Nelson Mandela handbook of vandalizing and disrupting actual oil infrastructure - i.e. more direct to what the cause is for - and people gave 0 shits. Turns out regular people don’t care about oil refineries and wells. They do care about museums and art pieces.
I bestow upon you the Useful Idiot Ribbon.