“Activists” Vandalize Van Gogh’s Artwork to “Protest” Gas and Oil
Climate protesters (CRIMINALS) threw soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting in London’s National Gallery on Friday to “protest fossil fuel extraction.”
“What is worth more, art or life?” asked one of the women, after gluing herself to the wall of London’s National Gallery.
“Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting? Or the protection of our planet and people?”
The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects said “activists” threw two cans of tomato soup over the oil painting. The two protesters also glued themselves to the gallery wall.
The gallery said, “there is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed.” The work is one of several versions of “Sunflowers” that Van Gogh painted in the late 1880s.
Pure Stupidity.
The “Activists” Were Arrested
London Police said officers arrested two people on suspicion of criminal damage and aggravated trespass.
“Specialist officers have now un-glued them and they have been taken into custody to a central London police station,” the force said in a statement.
No “discernible damage” was done to the glass-covered painting.
The “activism” group Just Stop Oil has received lots of attention, and criticism, for their animalistic behavior. In July of 2022, Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to the frame of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and to John Constable’s “The Hay Wain” in the National Gallery.
They’re NOT Activists, They’re CRIMINALS.
First of all, the mainstream media needs to stop calling these two women “climate activists.”
This is not a protest. This is not a form of activism. In no way, shape, or form, has this helped the climate.
Simply stated, this is vandalism.
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