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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.

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[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'm confused who this is for. Even many who agree with them don't appreciate vandalism of art and art galleries.

[-] DeadPand@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

Will art matter when we’re all dead from climate change tho?? I guess everyone has their priorities

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club -1 points 1 month ago

So people can go randomly punch the homeless? It won't matter in the end if we are all dead due to climate change.

[-] DeadPand@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

You think I’m ok with harming humans because I don’t care if art got ruined?? What?? The fuck

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 month ago

You seem to be ok with causing harm unrelated to the action taken. This is just identifying what that line is.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Congratulations, I award to you the Useful Idiot Ribbon. Wear it proudly as your world burns.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago

I just don't see how vandalizing artwork helps the cause. Please explain it to me.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Yesterday you were not talking about climate change. Today you are. Because someone threw soup at a painting and sat down, waiting to be arrested. Had they not done so, you likely would not be talking about climate change.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago

We've been talking about climate change either way. We're also not talking about climate change, but people claiming climate change while vandalizing.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Perhaps you are. I would assume you're already probably at least somewhat on board with environmental causes.

How do you think a person who lives in the middle of nowhere, doesn't have much of an education or anything, would react if they saw someone doing this? Probably that they must care a lot to get arrested for doing something intentionally. What makes it worth it? What are they about? Oh, something called Just Stop Oil... oh, an environmental group. Something called climate change? If it's actually happening, I guess we should be doing something about that.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago

How do you think a person who lives in the middle of nowhere, doesn't have much of an education or anything, would react if they saw someone doing this?

Fucking liberals who want to destroy everything, just like how I've heard on the few news sources I have bombard me with propaganda all the time.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I hear that, really I do. But here's the thing - if you don't have faith in humanity then we're all screwed anyway. And nihilism is not the answer. Never is.

[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Noone is talking about climate change. They're talking about shitty protest tactics and why they hate them.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Mmmm, yes, we are

[-] DeadPand@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago

The painting wasn’t “harmed”,

‘In passing his sentence, Hehir said he took into account not only the damage caused to the frame but the potential for even greater damage to be caused to the painting had the soup seeped behind the glass that covered it.’

The frame is also not a human being, and no where did I imply I was ok with harming any person you jackass, false equivalence much?

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