Climate activists threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum on Sunday, days after Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London was hit by tomato soup.
Posting a video of their action on Twitter, activists from the climate group Letzte Generation wrote: “It takes a painting of mashed potatoes or tomato soup to remind society that the fossil fuel trajectory is killing us all.”
The work “Les Meules” is on display at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam and is part of the collection of billionaire Hasso Plattner. The painting fetched $111 million at auction in 2019, the highest amount paid for a Monet painting.
Dressed in black with orange vests, the two activists poured the mash onto the board before sitting in front of it and placing one hand each on the wall. “Does it take mashed potatoes on a blackboard to make you listen? This painting won’t be worth anything if we have to fight over food,” said one of the two activists. Both were taken into custody.
Source: News Beast
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