After a canvas of Van Gogh, it is a table of Monet which was sprayed with mash by activists, in order to ensure a strong media presence.
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This is an advertisement including the company Heinz, which manufactures, among other things, the tomato soup, would have gone well. Friday, October 14, two of its cans were brandished against the public of the National Gallery, in London, by two young women who had just sprayed its content on sun gogh sunflowers (protected by a window very fortunately) . It was not an artistic action (they would have preferred the Campbell soup immortalized by Andy Warhol), but in a way of protesting the exploitation of fossil fuels.
Phoebe Plummer, 21, and Anna Holland, 20, previously withdrew their jackets, revealing t-shirts with British organization just stop oil, then committed their mischief before taking a hand of glue glue , to fix yourself at the bottom of the wall and to ask questions: “What is more worth, art or life?” Asked Phoebe Plummer. This canvas “is it more than food? More than justice? Are you more concerned with the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and our people? The cost of living crisis is part of the Oil crisis, fuel is unaffordable for millions of refrigerated and hungry families. They do not even have the means to heat a soup box. “
Even if the protest is confused, anyone who currently lives in Great Britain, or anyone who admits that global warming and the use of fossil fuels are linked can only recognize the correctness of their fight. But the means used to promote it have, in this specific case, aroused contrasting reactions: tackling a work of art, of this poor van Gogh moreover, struck the sensitivity of many, including among those who are Sympathizers of their cause.
This is perceived, better than elsewhere, on The Instagram page by New York journalist Jerry Saltz, Pulitzer Prize, one of the most influential art critics in the world. His post on the issue aroused thousands of comments, most of them emanating from enlightened amateurs or art professionals. That of the British artist Tracey Emin in particular: “Art is not the enemy.” Or the Brazilian Vik Muniz: “People sincerely animated with good intentions do really stupid things as long as someone is there To post a video on Tiktok. “
scene that has become viral
This is precisely the goal of the maneuver. In the room, one or more companions filmed the scene, quickly become viral – several million views – on social networks. Just Stop Oil is not at his first attempt: in July, activists had glued to the framework of a copy of the Last Supper, of Leonardo da Vinci, kept at the Royal Academy of Arts, in London, And others, the Italians of Ultima Generazione (“latest generation”) in the spring of Botticelli, of the Museum of Offices in Florence. Their comrades of the Rebellion extinction movement are not to be outdone, they have glued, in Melbourne, at the Massacre in Korea, from Picasso.
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