Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022
Climate activists have thrown tomato soup over two Sunflowers paintings by Vincent van Gogh, just an hour after two others were jailed for a similar protest action in 2022.
Three supporters of Just Stop Oil walked into the National Gallery in London, where an exhibition of Van Gogh’s collected works is on display, at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, and threw Heinz soup over Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.
The latter was the same work targeted by Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland in 2022. That pair are now among 25 supporters of Just Stop Oil in jail for climate protests.
Terrorist shoots at someone’s bulletproof vest:
“Derp, they didn’t shoot the man just the vest! Clickbait!”
Only in this case it would be shooting deliberately at the vest of a person covered from head to toe in said vest with a caliber that they’d know couldn’t penetrate it. There was no chance for it to penetrate or go around the protective layer, nor was it intended to be so, so that’s not quite accurate.
Which is still very much dumb thing to do.