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.

  • irreticent@lemmy.world
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    Being told you’re insipid isn’t an insult, but it does fit with you wanting to feel superior about an answer. You are being impetuous and acting childish, which is a statement of fact and not an insult, though it might feel like one because I think you might feel as though you deserve to be treated better than you treat others. You have consistently mocked others and argued in bad faith, so telling you that should give you a moment to self-reflect and treat others better.

    Yeah, who gives a shit about the cultural history of humanity, am I right? After destroying paintings, maybe the can go after other things of cultural significance! Bulldoze the Great Serpent Mound! Blow up Angkor Wat! Carve rude words into the Elgin Marbles!

    Stuff like this is bad faith. Especially when no paintings were harmed in the demonstration, and yet you overreact to everything. You should consider overreacting to the fucking planet being killed for 20% growth year over year. You would look better and be right.

    If you wish to conclude that the actions are correlated in a different way, please feel free to state another possibility, but these do show evidence that Just Stop Oil is being an influential force, and dismissing it with the age-old cornocau is, frankly, giving up.

    Quoted for posterity.

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