Environmentalist vandalized Monet artwork in Paris with political message.
A band of climate protesters has struck once more, this time defacing a famous piece of art in Paris' Orsay Museum. A woman from this group glued a red-tinted apocalyptic image onto a Monet painting titled "The Poppies," leading to her arrest by police.
In a recent demonstration captured in a video by the group Food Counterattack, the activist glues the macabre poster featuring the apocalypse directly onto the immortalized poppies painted by the great French impressionist, Claude Monet.
Explaining her actions, the activist claimed, "This horrifying scene before us is what waits if no alternatives are created." With a reference to the French government's forecast of a four-degree temperature rise by 2100, she continued, "If we reach a four-degree increase in temperature, we will face hell." Throughout the video, viewers can see the young woman's hands press against the museum's wall as she adheres the poster onto Monet's masterpiece, which is safely encased in a protective glass wall.
After the incident, the museum management issued a statement explaining that the painting had been put back on display following "evaluation and treatment by a conservator." Additionally, a formal complaint was lodged against the woman responsible for the defacement.
Following various other attention-grabbing protests involving soup and Monet paintings, in February, activists from the group Riposte Alimentaire targeted the Louvre in Paris, where they spilled soup onto the protective glass covering da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." They also threw soup on a Monet piece in Lyon.
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