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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    Do paintings in a museum offset the oil industry? Because that’s what they’re throwing soup at.

    Does throwing soup at paintings stop the oil industry? Has it made a single dent in their massive profits?

    • webadict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Does throwing soup at paintings stop the oil industry? Has it made a single dent in their massive profits?

      I’m glad you asked because it’s good to be a learned adult! The UK government has stopped the licensing of new oil, gas, and coal projects since Just Stop Oil started their campaign of civil disobedience. New levies have also been placed on oil and gas company profits, that are increasing as of November.

      Additionally, membership in Just Stop Oil continues to grow. So, it looks like, yes, throwing soup on paintings (as well as other forms of nonviolent resistance) DOES appear to put a dent in the profits of oil companies.

      Think of how much faster it would’ve been to ask that right off the bat instead of being so insipid :)

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        Correlation is not causation.

        Can you show that one actually is the cause of the other?

        Edit: Actually, never mind. I didn’t notice the insult. I never insulted you. I have no interest in a Reddit name-calling festival. Find someone else to do it with.