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In reply to the discussion: Monet Painting at the Musee d'Orsay Vandalized by Climate Activist [View all]Ponietz
(3,307 posts)57. You can make another picture but you can't make another earth
Im with the vandals on this one. Theyre following the early 20th century suffragette template.
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/fighting-for-representation-suffragettes-and-art-vandalism
The crack and smash of breaking glass was the first indication that anything unusual was happening during a quiet lunchtime at The National Gallery in early 1914. The attendant on duty initially thought that a skylight undergoing repairs had shattered under pressure. As he threw aside his newspaper and peered up at the ceiling, the real damage was done. While the attendant was distracted, Mary Richardson, suffragette and member of the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union) hacked six times at the prized oil painting by Velázquez, The Toilet of Venus.
This was the highest profile, but not the first, attack on paintings displayed in public by members of the women's suffrage movement. A year earlier three women armed with hammers smashed the glass protecting thirteen paintings by Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian masters in the Manchester Museum of Art. Like Richardson, this attack was nominally committed in protest against the incarceration of the founder of the WSPU, Emmeline Pankhurst.
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Monet Painting at the Musee d'Orsay Vandalized by Climate Activist [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Jun 2024
OP
Do you think destroying the common heritage of humanity will "get thru to those in power" ?
Hekate
Sep 19
#94
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
Are we then to expect that places open to the public can be trashed at will? Why?
Hekate
Sep 19
#103
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
You are very sure of that. If it was "harmless," why do it? Why not have a puppy play-date in some prominent place?
Hekate
Sep 19
#97
Some art is irreplaceable. You can make all the Hallmark cards you want, but Monet was unique.
Hekate
Sep 19
#98
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
Well, no art was damaged and this is STILL a topic of discussion, at least here...
Think. Again.
Sep 19
#101