In a joint screening of NOAA Y ESRLit was estimated that during 2021 the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached their highest level: 416 parts per million.
Global Witness placed Mexico as the country with the highest rate of murders of environmentalists.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and a painting from Monet’s ‘The Haystacks’ series have come under attack by environmental activists.
Liquid mashed potatoes drips from the brushstrokes that Monet gave to ‘The Haystacks’, a painting that represents the impressionism with which the famous painter highlighted a series that he recreated in invaluable paintings, the fields after the harvest. The unfortunate scene is a new attack by environmental activists against a priceless work of art using food. The first incident, we remember, occurred on October 14, when a couple of women entered the National Gallery in London to throw tomato soup on a painting of “The sunflowers” of Vincent van Gogh.
Apart from these actions carried out by Gen Zthere are very crude figures of environmentalism against the defenders of this current, as reported Global Witnessby ensuring that Mexico leads the highest rate of murders of environmental defenders, adding 54 deaths in 2021while Colombia and Brazil became the second and third countries in this index, with 33 Y 26 murdersrespectively.
Address real environmental challenges
Given the series of actions that environmentalists have carried out attacking paintings, to draw attention to very specific issues of activities that pollute the world, there are interesting challenges that have to be understood, since the importance of work in the environment depends on it. present.
We have the figures Global Witness that tell us about the challenges that have been imposed in Mexico is guaranteeing the right of defenders to be able to carry out their activities.
“These citizens are often the target of threats and attacks when facing other actors, such as those from the logging, mining or agricultural industries, who normally seek to ensure the use of natural resources for economic benefit,” he explains. Marina Pasqualidata specialist at Statista.
Now a affected Monet
A painting belonging to the series ‘The Haystacks’ by Claude Monet was attacked by a couple of environmentalists at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, southwest of Berlin, Germany, after the group published on their social networks the aggression they carried out against the work, acknowledging that they threw mashed potatoes.
Information released by The countryaccording to the statement they obtained from a museum source, the painting was not damaged because it was protected with glass, from which the substance drained while the two women, who were accompanied by two other people, stuck their hands to the wall , demanding action from the political class against the climate crisis.
This action that supports the attack suffered by a painting of The sunflowers of Van Goghwho had tomato soup thrown at him in an English museum, now motivated Ortrud Westheiderdirector of the Barberini Museum, to deplore the attacks against works of art of the level of ‘The haystacks’ by Monet or The Sunflowers by van Gogh.
“Although I understand the urgent concern of activists in the face of climate catastrophe, I am shocked by the means with which they are trying to give weight to their demands (…) In the works of the Impressionists we see the intense artistic engagement with nature. The many landscape paintings in the Hasso Plattner Collection can inspire visitors to reflect and question their relationship with the environment.
From the marketing It is important to see how a position is built in the art market in the face of the actions that have been carried out against paintings, as a form of environmental protest and that seems to raise the debate, despite the fact that there are large debts such as the murders of environmentalists with Mexico. as the country where most of these occur.