Environmental activists glued themselves to the glass protecting ‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’, a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, in a Dutch museum on Thursday, following other acts of vandalism on works of art, without however damaging pieces.
After the tomato soup thrown on The sunflowers from Van Gogh to London and a painting by Jean Monet smeared with mash in Germany, environmental activists glued themselves to the very famous work of Johannes Veermer on Thursday, The girl with the pearl exhibited in a museum in The Hague. Covered with a glass plate, the painting, dating from 1665, was not damaged.
The three men, of Belgian nationality and dressed in T-shirts bearing the image of the collective ” Just Stop Oil “, were arrested for” public violence against property “. One stuck his hand on the wall next to the painting, the other his head on the glass plate protecting the canvas and a third activist was throwing tomato sauce.
In one month, the ecological collectives “ Just Stop Oil ” Where ” last generation organized several actions of this type with the aim of drawing attention to the inaction of the authorities for the climate.
The first association entared a few days ago the wax statue of the new King of England, Charles III. ” The science is clear. The request is clear : stop new oil and gas projects. It’s pie “, had declared the group in a press release.
If the scenes of vandalism have indeed made the rounds of social networks and the media, they have aroused more incomprehension and anger than membership. Many netizens condemned these actions calling these acts “ free ” and D'” absurd “. For the most ardent defenders of the environment, these forms of activism have the merit of arousing reactions and putting the subject of the climate emergency back at the center of the debates.
(and haswith AFP)