Oil Protestors Throw Tomato Soup On Van Gogh Oil Painting
Oil protestors have decided to leave their mark and spread awareness of their mission by throwing tomato soup on the priceless Van Gogh oil painting 'Sunflowers' before gluing themselves to the wall with industrial strength glue. The act, which is reminiscent of the Mona Lisa Creaming earlier this year, has lead to a lot of chatter online about climate protestors seeming to target expensive art in museums. Luckily, much like the Mona Lisa, 'Sunflowers' was also protected by a sheet of glass, meaning the only harm done was to the frame, not the painting itself.
Mad I got to see one of these events happen in person. Tin of beans thrown on Van Gogh’s sunflowers at the National Gallery in London. #juststopoil pic.twitter.com/tIV499AswH
— Ro Carey (@RonanCareless) October 14, 2022
Whether intentional or not, the act using Tomato Soup is itself ironic, as it was the vessel of choice for Andy Warhol's famous painting series on Campbell's Tomato Soup, so in a way, it's just an attempt to meld two different artists together, although unsuccessfully. This irony was not lost on those taking part in the discussion on this act, as some pointed out how it could have been a better message to flip it the other way. Much like with the Mona Lisa's attempted besmirchment a few months ago, memes and jokes began to fly immediately upon the news getting out.
Throwing sunflowers at Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans would have been a better message about the cost of nature in mass produced, consumerist industry. But what would I know? I think destroying our shared cultural heritage doesn’t make a point, it just makes you look a twat. https://t.co/2ZdbLGE8V3
— fred “RIK WORTH” ham (@RikWorth) October 14, 2022
The best argument I've seen against protesters throwing soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers is that it opens the door to other, more dangerous protests, like throwing sunflowers on these pic.twitter.com/odLxmPnvlR
— Arjun Kaul (@ProbablyArjun) October 14, 2022
You’re protesting against oil use and throwing soup over Van Gogh’s sunflowers if you think we’re fuckinMe: pic.twitter.com/Ch4iRCAXMp
— Rosie Blackadder (@RosieBlackadder) October 14, 2022
A second can of soup has hit Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
— peach (@peachlux_) October 14, 2022
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PatrickBateman96
This is some Eric Andre level shit
Misspelled Tiger
Im too boring to believe in conspiracies but I read something that I want to share because it was kinda interesting.
Basically, Just Stop Oil is funded by Getty Oil money, one of their grandkids is giving a lot of money supporting out of "moral obligation" (quoting her) and Idk man, people hate em so much that I cant stop feeling it all…a bit sussy.
But once again, it may be nothing more than a silly coincidence.
JapaneseTeeth
The dumbest part of this whole thing is that it's almost certainly going to have the opposite affect of what they wanted to accomplish. Nearly everyone who's actually in a position to have any influence at all on the things their protesting is already aware of the issues at hand, which makes this "protest" a waste on the "raising awareness" front, and nearly all of those people have probably already picked a side.
Which means that they only people who this is going to influence is the extremely tiny group who have either been under a rock so long they somehow haven't heard any of the arguments about oil, pollution, climate change, and such, or people who have, but are balanced so precariously on the fence that an act of wanton vandalism is able to push them over one way or the other.
And given that said vandalism is an attempt at destroying a priceless piece of art completely unrelated to the issue at hand, I'm guessing most of the "on the fence" crowd isn't going to rally around the protesters.
To recap: almost nobody is actually going to be influenced by this, and those that are probably aren't going to be supportive.
Red Fenix
That's not the dumbest part, that's probably the actual goal.
This "activisit group" is directly funded by Getty Oil, takes crypto as donations (famously hated by climate activists), and the 2 performing seem like the most stereotypical portrayals of libs ever.
Seeing as how they also targeted a painting that would not actually get harmed if liquid was thrown at it (behind glass), it seems more like an attempt at making climate activism look less favourable.
BurgerBurgerBurger
I wish there was a law where if brainlet protestors like this get their info wrong thinking the type of oil used in paint is the same used in cars and pull this type of stunt that people can just kick the crap out of them for being a dumbass
downer
"WeLL iT gOt yOU tAlkInG aBoUT It RigHt?"
- Idiots wielding elementary school logic and thinking they're clever.
Nobody who's inclined to give a shit doesn't know about these things they're 'drawing attention to'. The reason oil isn't being replaced in a hurry has absolutely fuck-all to do with a lack of awareness or caring in the general populace. I could forgive a literal child for thinking "maybe it's because nobody knows that oil is bad", but that naivete should be outgrown well before adulthood.
You've Yeed Your Last Haw
This kind of protests are really stupid. Regardless if it cones from envrionmentalist or feminists. Seriously. We need to get rid of the iconoclast-calvinist mentality
Excitebot theLEGO
Wrong kind of oil, dumbass.
Ranch Dressing
literally just found out what oil paint was made of from my art teacher and was coming on here to say it, seems like someone did it before me lol. This really shows how stupid kids can be nowadays. Me myself being 16
Nigel the treasure hunter
Throwing with food and glueing yourself to a surface. Literal preschooler behavior.
Pokejoseph64
ArcadeTwo
The paintings were shielded with glass like the one time someone threw a pie at the Mona Lisa, right?
rerako
pretty much though I guess what they display is often a replica if it isn't behind strong glass to ensure no one steals the real one.