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.

  • @AlexanderTheDead
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    42 months ago

    Pretty uncharitable interpretation of something posted by someone who I would guess you have a common goal with.

    People that give a fuck about “priceless art” or whatever are so silly. Lmao.

    I’m not saying to not continue posting articles like this, but I do think that maybe your time would be better spent arguing with people who don’t believe in climate change instead of arguing with people who do believe in climate change.

    • Flying SquidM
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      -42 months ago

      People that give a fuck about “priceless art” or whatever are so silly. Lmao.

      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!

      • @webadict
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        42 months ago

        There is no art on a dead planet.

          • @webadict
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            22 months ago

            If we’re all dead, the memorials are for all of us anyway.

            • Flying SquidM
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              -42 months ago

              So you agree that those should be used for building material, yes?

              • @webadict
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                42 months ago

                No, I would prefer we just stop oil.

                • Flying SquidM
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                  -32 months ago

                  You’re evading the question.

                  • @webadict
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                    42 months ago

                    You’ll have to excuse me, your gotcha question was of low quality, so I assumed you set me up a slam dunk.

                    My mistake, I expected too much.

                    Is your question seriously: Would I rather monuments be destroyed and people be alive, or that people be dead and monuments be preserved? Because obviously people are more important. But, if we stop climate change, we are likely to be able to enjoy both people being alive and monuments being preserved.