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Showing Original Post only (View all)Monet Painting at the Musee d'Orsay Vandalized by Climate Activist [View all]
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Monet Painting at the Musée dOrsay Vandalized by Climate Activist
BY FRANCESCA ATON
June 1, 2024 6:10pm
PHOTO DEAGOSTINI/GETTY IMAGES
A climate activist affixed an adhesive poster to a Monet painting at the Musée dOrsay Saturday. The woman, who said she intended to raise awareness for climate change, was arrested.
The stunt was carried out by a member of Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response), a group of environmental activists and defenders of sustainable food production in response to the climate crisis. The group has been targeting museums across Europe for years, including most recently a protest at the Louvre last month.
A video on X showed the activist sticking an adhesive barren red landscape on top of Claude Monets 1873 painting Coquelicots, saying, according to the Guardian, this nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place.
The French Impressionists work depicts people with umbrellas roaming through a blooming poppy field. Unlike works like Leonardos Mona Lisa, which has been the subject of much backlash, it was not protected by glass.
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BY FRANCESCA ATON
June 1, 2024 6:10pm
PHOTO DEAGOSTINI/GETTY IMAGES
A climate activist affixed an adhesive poster to a Monet painting at the Musée dOrsay Saturday. The woman, who said she intended to raise awareness for climate change, was arrested.
The stunt was carried out by a member of Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response), a group of environmental activists and defenders of sustainable food production in response to the climate crisis. The group has been targeting museums across Europe for years, including most recently a protest at the Louvre last month.
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A video on X showed the activist sticking an adhesive barren red landscape on top of Claude Monets 1873 painting Coquelicots, saying, according to the Guardian, this nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place.
The French Impressionists work depicts people with umbrellas roaming through a blooming poppy field. Unlike works like Leonardos Mona Lisa, which has been the subject of much backlash, it was not protected by glass.
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Edited to add: see the update from "Artforum."
Tue Jun 4, 2024: June 3, 2024, update from Artforum: Climate Activist Defaces Monet at Musee D'Orsay
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Monet Painting at the Musee d'Orsay Vandalized by Climate Activist [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2024
OP
Such an action is not a protest. It is willful vandalism and needs to be punished.
Lonestarblue
Jun 2024
#9
Th Monet artwork in the Musee d'Orsay was not covered by glass and the protester damaged it by gluing a poster to it.
Lonestarblue
Jun 2024
#14
I did not read the Guardian article because I had already read about the attack.
Lonestarblue
Jun 2024
#17
When art, museums, hospitals, universities, small businesses, ordinary people become The Establishment.
betsuni
Jun 2024
#87
Suffragettes in England took axes and meat cleavers to art at the National gallery in 1914
Ponietz
Jun 2024
#56
Actually, we seem mostly to be talking about the stupidity of these tactics.
thucythucy
Jun 2024
#90
The Water Lilies panels in the Musee de l'Orangerie need to be protected.
greatauntoftriplets
Jun 2024
#80
June 3, 2024, update from Artforum: Climate Activist Defaces Monet at Musee D'Orsay
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2024
#88