The ‘Last Generation’ movement seeks to demonstrate that climate change is eroding guarantees of access to food and forcing populations to leave their homes
Environmentalists of the ‘Last Generation’ movement have thrown vegetable puree at Vincent van Gogh’s four ‘The Sower’, on display at the Bonaparte Palace museum, in Italy’s capital Rome, as part of an exhibition devoted to the painter dutch
In spite of everything, the work was not damaged because it had a glass for protection, something the activists did, who acknowledged that it was not their intention to spoil ‘El Sembrador’.
As they emphasized from the environmental group, the present is “overshadowed by a real and imminent catastrophe,” just as the painting’s most striking elements (the field, the farmer, and his house) are blurred by the pea mash over the paint.
For ‘Last Generation’, her action seeks to demonstrate that climate change affects guarantees of access to food, forces populations to leave their homes and emphasizes the need to bet on a transition to renewable energy, according to the Italian agency AdnKronos. .
“It is a desperate cry, and scientifically based, which cannot be understood as a simple vandalism, but as the manifestation of a deep-seated love for life and for art, which can only be protected with serious and timely intervention by governments”. have added since ‘Last Generation’.
In recent weeks there have been several similar episodes of activists from groups like Just Stop Oil spraying paint, pouring tomato sauce and even trying to poke their heads at paintings like ‘Los Girasoles’, also by Van Gogh or ‘Girl with a pearl’, by Johannes Vermeer.
Source: La Verdad
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