A week ago two protesters smeared soup on a Van Gogh painting in the National Gallery in London. Now, other activists have thrown mashed potatoes at a Monet painting valued at nearly $111 million.
This Sunday members of the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) stained the painting ‘Meules, fin de l’été’by the French artist Claude Monet that was in the Barberini museum in the German city of Potsdam.
“If you need to throw mashed potatoes or tomato soup at a painting for society to remember that the fossil fuel run is killing us all, then we’ll give you mashed potatoes in a painting!” Twitter.
The protesters entered the museum dressed in reflective vests and knelt in front of the work after staining it. Later one of them stated: “People are hungry, they are freezing, they are dying. We are experiencing a climate catastrophe. And the only thing that scares you is tomato soup or tomato puree in a painting.”
“You know what scares me? I’m scared because science tells us we won’t be able to feed our families by 2050 […] This painting will be worth nothing if we have to fight over food,” he added.
‘Meules, fin de l’été’ was painted by Monet in 1890. In 2019 it was auctioned for $110.7 million in New York.
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