Van Gogh

Two activists attacked the famous painting at the National Gallery, in London.

[works including Rubens’s “Massacre of the Innocents,”](https://www.dw.com/en/climate-activists-damage-frame-of-a-rubens-painting-in-munich/a-62927968) which hangs in the Alte Pinakothek, in Munich. Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” had nothing to do with climate change, she said. And Just Stop Oil planned further actions, she added. It is one of six surviving images of sunflowers that van Gogh made in 1888 and 1889. Within minutes, the stunt grabbed attention worldwide, and many social media users expressed concern for the painting’s condition. [Just Stop Oil](https://juststopoil.org/), a group that seeks to stop oil and gas extraction in Britain, entered room 43 of the National Gallery in London, opened two tins of Heinz cream of tomato soup, and threw them at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” one of the treasures of the museum’s collection.

Two activists from campaign group Just Stop Oil have been arrested after throwing tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh's famous “Sunflowers” painting.

Just Stop Oil have been protesting in the U.K.'s capital for the past two weeks. The issuance of such licenses had previously been put on hold in 2020 as the government said it was establishing a "climate compatibility check." government put an end to all new oil and gas projects in the country. The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis, fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold, hungry families. Is it worth more than food? Worth more than justice?

LONDON — Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London's National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction, ...

Several also glued themselves to the road, blocking traffic. The two protesters also glued themselves to the gallery wall. The soup splashed across the glass covering the painting and its gilded frame.

Two protesters who threw a substance that appeared to be tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting Friday morning were arrested on charges of.

[inching toward a recession](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/bank-england-interest-rates-rise-inflation-energy-crisis-food-prices-rcna48902) and the pound fell to an all-time low against the U.S. The Conservative government plans to spend billions of pounds to offset high energy bills that are driving a cost-of-living crisis, but economists say the plan is unlikely to pan out. It is one of five paintings he completed of sunflowers, which are among his most famous works, [Sunflowers](https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gogh-sunflowers)" painting Friday morning were arrested on charges of criminal damage and aggravated trespass, London police said. They can't even afford to heat a tin of soup." "Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?"

Tras el incidente, la sala del museo fue cerrada por motivos de seguridad y los visitantes fueron desalojados.

¿Vale más que la justicia? ¿Vale más que la comida? La obra muestra quince girasoles de pie en una maceta amarilla sobre un fondo del mismo color.

Manifestantes contra los combustibles fósiles arrojaron sopa sobre la famosa pintura "Girasoles" de Vincent van Gogh de 1888 en la Galería Nacional de ...

En julio, los miembros de Just Stop Oil se pegaron a una copia de "La última cena" de Leonardo da Vinci en la Royal Academy of Art de Londres. El mismo mes, los activistas del grupo se pegaron a una obra maestra que se encuentra en la Galería Nacional, mientras que los miembros de una organización activista climática italiana se pegaron a "Primavera" de Botticelli en Florencia. En un tuit posterior, la galería explicó que la pintura tenía un vidrio y por lo tanto estaba protegida.

Manifestantes ambientalistas arrojaron sopa sobre la obra 'Los Girasoles' de Vincent Van Gogh en Londres.

EFE.- Dos activistas de la organización Just Stop Oil lanzaron este viernes sopa sobre el famoso cuadro “Los Girasoles”, de Vincent Van Gogh, en la National ...

La obra muestra quince girasoles de pie en una maceta amarilla sobre un fondo del mismo color “¿Qué nos preocupa más, la protección de una pintura o la protección de nuestro planeta y la gente? ¿Vale más que la comida?

The orchard blossom scene, from the collection of Microsoft founder Paul Allen, is being sold by Christie's.

It depicts a line of mourners outside the tower of the old church and the cemetery. Curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti and Francesca Villanti, the show includes 26 paintings and 14 works on paper from the museum in Otterlo, in the east of the Netherlands. While painting on this spot, Van Gogh was for part of the time accompanied by a Danish artist friend, Christian Mourier-Petersen, who was also working in Arles. Now known as the Museum of Pop Culture, this might seem an unusual place for a Van Gogh masterpiece, but the venue had been established by Allen. The orchard scene was purchased by Allen in 1998. On 3 April 1888 he wrote to his brother Theo: “I’m in a fury of work as the trees are in blossom and I wanted to do a Provence orchard of tremendous gaiety.” Embarking on his new life in the south of France, he was full of enthusiasm for what lay ahead. Van Gogh set up his easel a metre or two away for the vertical Pink Peach Trees, slightly changing the angle from which the trunks were painted. A typical example that was in Van Gogh’s print collection was Woman Picking Cherry Blossoms (around 1846) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of his favourite artists. Although quickly dropping this idea, he continued to think of the two horizontal canvases as pendants, or a pair. [the estate of Paul Allen,](/2022/08/26/microsoft-mogul-paul-allens-art-collection-heads-to-christies-and-could-be-first-to-hit-dollar1bn) the co-founder of Microsoft along with [Bill Gates](/keywords/bill-gates). The most expensive work by the artist ever sold at auction was Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet (June 1890), which went for $83m, but that was back in 1990—and prices have risen considerably since then.

Climate protesters in Europe recently attached themselves to works of art, including famous paintings, to grab attention.

[Mona Lisa](https://www.axios.com/2022/05/30/mona-lisa-attacked-cake-video), urging people to "think of the Earth." [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers). [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers) that the group is "not trying to make friends here, we are trying to make change, and unfortunately this is the way that change happens." [AP](https://apnews.com/article/london-painting-climate-and-environment-b15e0092560b290c04920620b2d7c061?ref=upstract.com). [Vincent van Gogh's famous "Sunflowers](https://twitter.com/damiengayle/status/1580864210741133312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1580864210741133312%7Ctwgr%5E1dc454f4aeddd808b1774d78b2992f8cdb65fd24%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fenvironment%2F2022%2Foct%2F14%2Fjust-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers)" painting at the [National Gallery in London](https://twitter.com/NiranjanAjit/status/1580884321719631872) on Friday, leading to [arrests](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers) and minor damage to the frame of the painting. [New York Times.](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/arts/design/soup-van-gogh-sunflowers-climate.html)

Members of the climate activist group, Just Stop Oil, threw cans of tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" Friday at the National Gallery ...

"There is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed. The National Gallery would not respond to ABC News' request for. Turner painting at Manchester Art Gallery They can't even afford to heat a tin of soup." "The room was cleared of visitors and police were called. Is it worth more than food?

El video de los activistas que lanzaron una sopa al cuadro Los girasoles de Van Gogh en Londres se viralizó.

La crisis por el encarecimiento de la vida es parte de la crisis energética. Esta es una de las cinco versiones de Los girasoles exhibidas en museos y galerías en todo el mundo. El hecho ocurrió en la National Gallery de Londres.

Just after 11 a.m. on Friday morning, two young climate protesters entered a room in the National Gallery in London containing one of Vincent van Gogh's ...

It can feel overwhelming facing the impacts of climate change, but there are [ways to cope with climate anxiety](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/climate-change-anxiety-dread-cope/2021/07/14/471eb264-e4d4-11eb-b722-89ea0dde7771_story.html?itid=lb_more-on-climate-change_6). As temperatures rise, heat waves are more often sweeping the globe — and parts of the world are [becoming too hot to survive](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/climate-change-humidity/?itid=lb_more-on-climate-change_4&itid=lb_more-on-climate-change_3). As seas rise, others are exploring [how to harness marine energy](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2021/cop26-scotland-wave-energy-renewables/?itid=lb_more-on-climate-change_14&itid=lb_more-on-climate-change_8). area to push President Biden to declare a “climate emergency.” Another group, known as the Tyre Extinguishers, has been letting the air out of SUV tires across the [United Kingdom](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dg7qn/who-are-the-tyre-extinguishers) and in [New York](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/tire-deflators-suv-new-york-climate-crisis), arguing that the vehicles use more gas and are harmful to pedestrians and cyclists. At least to the activists involved, the fact that the protest had gone viral was probably viewed as a success. [glued themselves](https://twitter.com/UltimaGenerazi1/status/1550481833690890241?s=20&t=UFTmNPnb5LJ5ItK09fxuwQ) to a painting by Sandro Botticelli at the Uffizi museum in Florence. [climbed on the roof](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/17/extinction-rebellion-activists-london-underground) of a commuter train in London, preventing people from getting to work and causing a scuffle between commuters and protesters. Now that attention for that has cooled down, they have moved on to at least the appearance of defacing artworks, in an attempt to attract more eyes. “There is some minor damage to the frame, but the painting is unharmed,” the National Gallery said in a statement. The media gets accustomed to particular types of activism; a march or a sit-in that once commanded attention soon gets written off as old news. But the climate art stunt was still a strange form of protest, one that seemed more likely to alienate people. In July, protesters glued themselves to John Constable’s “The Hay Wain,” also in London’s National Gallery, after pasting their own “apocalyptic” vision of the future over the painting’s surface.

Las acciones de este grupo reivindican la lucha por el clima y la justicia social. Los activistas fueron detenidos por la policía, acusados de daños dolosos ...

Tras el incidente, la sala del museo fue cerrada y los visitantes desalojados. ¿Vale más que la justicia? ¿Vale más que la comida?

Activists with the group Just Stop Oil threw soup on a Vincent van Gogh painting at the National Gallery in London.

Still others raised the possibility that van Gogh was not the right artist to target. [Just Stop Oil](https://www.artnews.com/t/just-stop-oil/), threw tomato soup on van Gogh’s Sunflowers, an important example of the Post-Impressionist’s style and one of the National Gallery’s many treasures. [splashed with slime](https://twitter.com/suchavogue1/status/1580883859432157185) and sardonically [asking what van Gogh did](https://twitter.com/StokeyyG2/status/1580881421102567425) to hurt the climate. They then spread glue across their hands and place them to the wall. We all own that painting.” [said](https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com/status/1580872772590239746) the protest “represents a repudiation of civilisation and the achievements of humanity.”

Manifestantes ambientalistas arrojaron sopa sobre “Los girasoles” de Vincent van Gogh en la Galería Nacional de Londres el viernes en protesta contra la...

La obra es una de las varias versiones de “Los girasoles” que Van Gogh pintó a finales de 1880. Just Stop Oil ha llamado la atención, y también ha generado críticas, por usar obras de arte en museos como objeto de sus protestas. Los dos manifestantes también se pegaron a una pared de la galería.

Two Just Stop Oil protestors threw a can of tomato soup on Van Gogh's “Sunflowers” painting in London's National Gallery. Here's why.

The artwork is glazed, and apart from minor damage to the frame, the painting is allegedly unharmed. “What is worth more, art or life?” said one of the soup activists while stuck to the wall. [Just Stop Oil](https://juststopoil.org/), an organization that seeks to halt oil and gas extraction in Britain, launched glugs of Heinz tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting.

Dos miembros de “Just stop oil” le aventaron sopa de tomate a la obra del artista que se encuentra en la National Gallery de Londres.

Esta organización londinense tiene como objetivo exigir que el gobierno del Reino Unido cese la extracción de petróleo y gas porque permite proyectos de captura y almacenamiento de carbono, lo cual está causando subsidios elevados y exenciones de impuestos que afectan tanto a los ciudadanos del país, como al medio ambiente. La pintura no sufrió daños irreversibles, ya que está cubierta con un vidrio como parte de los protocolos de protección de obras así de importantes —aunque el marco sí fue alterado—. Además, eligieron dicha pintura porque su valor cultural causaría indignación, lo que les permitiría cuestionar la diferencia de cuidados y atención que recibe una obra de arte en comparación con las personas o el medioambiente.

Anti-fossil fuel protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh's famous 1888 painting "Sunflowers" at London's National Gallery on Friday.

In July, members of Just Stop Oil glued themselves to a copy of [Picasso's "Massacre in Korea"](https://www.cnn.com/style/article/picasso-extinction-rebellion-intl/index.html)at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. [a masterpiece](https://cnn.com/style/article/just-stop-oil-hay-wain-london-climate/index.html)held in the National Gallery, while members of an Italian climate activist organization glued themselves to Botticelli's "Primavera" in Florence. [Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper"](https://cnn.com/style/amp/just-stop-oil-protest-leonardo-da-vinci/index.html)at the Royal Academy of Art in London. [statement posted on Twitter](https://twitter.com/NationalGallery/status/1580880525824122880?s=20&t=uavnXIqEiZkVc0t3QEbcZw), the National Gallery confirmed the incident in Room 43, where "Sunflowers" was displayed, and gave an update on its condition. [Vincent van Gogh](https://cnn.com/style/article/hidden-vincent-van-gogh-self-portrait-intl-scli/index.html)'s famous 1888 painting "Sunflowers" at London's National Gallery on Friday.

Two women are to appear in court charged with criminal damage to frame of Sunflowers at London's National Gallery.

The action is expected to last for more than a month. Lora Johnson, 38, of Reydon, Suffolk, also appeared in court on Saturday charged with criminal damage to the main sign outside New Scotland Yard. Two women have appeared in court charged with criminal damage to the frame of Vincent van Gogh’s painting Sunflowers.

Three climate activists appeared in a London court on charges of criminal damage after protests including throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh's “Sunflowers” ...

The two protesters also glued themselves to the gallery wall. The three women pleaded not guilty to criminal damage at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court during two brief hearings Saturday. Just Stop Oil has drawn attention, and criticism, for targeting artworks in museums.

The climate activists who threw soup over Vincent van Gogh's famous "Sunflowers" painting appeared in a court in London on charges of criminal damages.

The painting was covered by glass, and it was cleaned and returned to the National Gallery Friday afternoon. They were removed by specialists and taken into custody, according to the London Metropolitan Police. It has an estimated value of $80.99 million.