Environmental activists throw soup onto van Gogh painting in London's National Gallery
October 15, 2022, 8:10 am

Environmental activists throw soup onto van Gogh painting in London's National Gallery

van Gogh was born in the Brabant village of Zundert on 30 March 1853. He took his own life in July 1890 - Photo. Pixabay

A group of environmental activists on Friday (Oct 14) threw tomato soup over an iconic van Gogh painting in London’s National Gallery, the Anadolu Agency reported.

A video posted online showed two activists throwing a yellowish substance on the Sunflowers painting, one of the most famous by the 19th century Dutch painter. They also glued themselves to the wall below the painting.

“Officers were rapidly on scene at the National Gallery this morning after two Just Stop Oil protesters threw a substance over a painting and then glued themselves to a wall,” a statement from London Metropolitan Police said.

The activists from Just Stop Oil – an environmental group which has been protesting new government oil and gas licenses – have been “arrested for criminal damage & aggravated trespass.”

“Is art worth more than life? More than food? More than justice?” the group wrote on Twitter. “The cost of living crisis and climate crisis is driven by oil and gas.”

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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. He was born in the Brabant village of Zundert on 30 March 1853. van Gogh took his own life in July 1890.

Sunflowers is the title of two series of still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh. he first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, made a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase.

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