German environmental group members throw mashed potatoes at Monet’s painting to protest fossil fuel mining – Teller Report

China News Service, October 24. According to full foreign media reports, on 23 local time, members of the German environmental protection organization “Letzte Generation” entered the Barberini Museum in Germany and sketched Monet’s famous painting “Pagliaio”. against the extraction of fossil fuels.

Sky News reported that the painting was part of Monet’s famous “Haystacks” series, which sold at auction for $ 110 million three years ago.

The Barberini Museum said the activists did not cause any damage to the painting because it was protected by glass. The restatement is scheduled for 26.

“Does it take mashed potatoes on a painting to get you to listen?” One activist would shout. “If we were to fight for food, the painting would have no value.”

Activists also said it was a wake-up call for people facing the climate catastrophe. The video of the scene showed activists chanting “people are starving, people are freezing, people are dying … we are in a climate catastrophe”. The group said they decided to make “this Monet (painting) the stage and the audience the audience” in an attempt to get their message across.

Not long ago, two members of the British environmental group “Just Stop Oil” poured tomato soup over Van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery.