Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

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.

  • @webadictEnglish
    14•2 hours ago

    What does Vincent van Gogh have to do with the current state of the petrol industry? What does any classical artist have to do with the current state of the petrol industry? Why go out of one’s way to try and ruin something that isn’t even remotely related to the subject? They’re only making themselves look like a bad joke.

    They literally address this: “There is no art on a dead planet.” If all humans are dead, art means nothing. Just stop using oil.

    Pearl clutching aside, the art was protected by a plexiglass barrier and did no permanent harm.

    • @TattorackEnglish
      -2•2 hours ago

      An incredibly stupid sentiment.

      • @webadictEnglish
        0•46 minutes ago

        And yet, you talk about Just Stop Oil, so it does work.

        • @TattorackEnglish
          2•39 minutes ago

          Yeah, so Just Stop Oil grabbed attention with a stupid act. What’s everyone talking about? The stupid act.

        • @JigglySacklesEnglish
          1•2 minutes ago

          It’s not a productive discourse though. They draw the ire of everyone doing something so senseless, and that in turn causes damage to the progress of their cause because people don’t want to support them.

          An anecdotal example is that I agree with some of their sentiments but I will never support them because they do stupid ineffectual nonsense like this. Take your protests to the places that control these issues. Not a fucking art gallery.