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

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.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    135·
    2 months ago

    I’m confused who this is for. Even many who agree with them don’t appreciate vandalism of art and art galleries.

    • Wogi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      156·
      2 months ago

      It’s to get cameras thrust in their face so they ask when oil executives will face consequences.

      “Is destroying art worse than destroying the whole planet???”

      It’s an idiotic form of protest, it accomplishes nothing but turning the public against you, and forever associating your cause with petty vandalism.

      • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        2 months ago

        “Is destroying art worse than destroying the whole planet???”

        It’s a fair question.

        Everyone cares so much about protecting this painting. Why don’t they care as much about protecting the planet? (And the painting isn’t even in any real danger. It’s behind glass.)

        The vandalism is practically thought-provoking performance art in itself. It’s probably one of the best pieces in the gallery.

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          2 months ago

          The vandalism is practically thought-provoking performance art in itself. It’s probably one of the best pieces in the gallery.

          Jesus fucking Christ.

      • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        And also everything they do is wrong because all protests are secretly worse than the things being protested.

        Let the planet die like all the reasonable people.

    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      Getting a couple of ounces of soup on a picture frame is hardly the “vandalism of art” people are making it out to be.