Another activist attack on a work of art: Soup was thrown at a Claude Monet painting in Lyon, France on Saturday. The attack on the painting “Le Printemps” (Spring) took place in the afternoon, the Museum of Fine Arts in France’s third-largest city said. There was talk of “vandalism” and a lawsuit was announced.
The Monet painting in question is protected by glass. According to the museum, the work of the French Impressionist, painted in 1872, will be examined in the coming days for possible damage.
Healthy food activists are behind the attack
An activist group called Riposte Alimentaire (roughly: Food Counter-Strike), which claims to fight for affordable, sustainable and healthy food for all, claimed responsibility for the crime. “We must act now before it is too late,” the online service X said.
Soup on ‘Mona Lisa’ – activists must pay money
Activists from the group threw pumpkin soup at the “Mona Lisa” in the Louvre in Paris last month. According to the Public Prosecution Service, they would provide financial support to a victims’ association due to the attack on Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, which is protected with bulletproof glass.
Recently, there were attacks on famous works of art in several museums around the world by activists from different groups. Among the targets were Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup” in Australia, Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London and Claude Monet’s “Grain Rack” in the Barberini Museum in Potsdam. At the end of 2022, Gustav Klimt’s glass-protected painting ‘Death and Life’ in the Leopold Museum in Vienna was overloaded with black paint.
Source: Krone
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