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Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Painting [1]
['Eduardo Medina']
Date: 2022-10-23
Two climate activists threw mashed potatoes on a glass-covered painting by the celebrated French Impressionist Claude Monet on Sunday inside a German museum, the latest art attack intended to draw attention to climate change.
Videos show the activists dousing one of the artist’s works, “Grainstacks,” with a thick yellow substance that covered the painting’s warm red hues. The oil on canvas is one of 25 paintings the artist made around 1890 of stacks of hay in the fields near his house in Giverny, France.
The activists, a man and a woman, each glued a hand to the wall by the painting. Then, the woman shouted in German that the world was in “a climate catastrophe, and all you are afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes in a painting,” referring to a similar attack this month in London by activists who threw cans of tomato soup on a painting by Vincent van Gogh. In videos posted online, liquid can be seen dripping from the painting’s frame as one of the activists speaks.
The Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, which had “Grainstacks” on exhibit, said in a statement that the activists were associated with Last Generation, an advocacy group devoted to climate change issues.
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