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🦍 what does van gogh have to do with it?

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🦍 what does van gogh have to do with it?

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Oct 15, 2022
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🦍 what does van gogh have to do with it?

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🎨 protesters throw can of soup on painting

 

oil is evil

  • climate protesters part of a group called just stop oil sprayed tomato soup on van gogh’s painting sunflower at the national gallery in london

  • the reason was to raise awareness about oil pollution

  • thankfully, the painting itself was unharmed

 

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  • this seems to be part of a trend, and there have been many incidents like this

  • the mona lisa was smeared with cake in the name of climate protection in may, and was unharmed

photo : twitter @lukeXC2002
 

🫠 does it work?

do you think these are effective protests? there has been some discourse:

  • some people say that there is an undeniable shock factor that gets the message across, and art is generally protected by bulletproof glass

  • on the other hand, it doesn’t seem appropriate to deface art for an unrelated cause

 

guess we should go see these paintings before anyone actually destroys one of them…

🕰 82 years ago today…

charlie chaplin’s satirical comedy the great dictator (1940) was released!

that's all, folks 🐒

 

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