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.

  • Aabbcc@lemm.eeEnglish
    83·
    1 month ago

    “No art on a dead planet” is a braindead justification and does not in any way outline how vandalism of art is supposed to translate into climate activism

    If damaged art hurts your feelings get mad at the government killing all art on the planet and not the activists partially damaging some art.

    “I understand that we’re pissing people off but there’s no other way to get attention” … not particularly compelling rebuttals in the critics section

    Why not? How else should they be getting attention?

    “JSO was central in setting the 2024 Labour agenda” is utterly deluded,

    I won’t disagree

    This really reinforces my view that JSO are terribly naive and have no real idea on how their actions will seriously lead to mass change of opinions on climate change.

    Yeah I don’t get the vibe from you that you’d change your view

    Partially related but do you have any evidence that jso tactics has a “greater backlash from the exact kind of educated people most likely to get involved in climate activism” or is that kinda vibes based