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Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed | UK news | The Guardian

Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

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[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 1 month ago

There is nothing priceless about any piece of art ever. Placing a living person's time and life below a simple image is the most egregious fetishism I have seen in a while.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So according to this judge Earth = not priceless

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

The judge is probably old as fuck so global warming will just mean he can go on retirement cruises all year round

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

THEY DID DAMAGE TO THE FRAME frothingfash

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ukkk Keep doing this to your climate activists and soon enough their sentences won't even be able to be completed because the prisons will be underwater.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

When the climate disaster has escalated to that point, they will have already switched to summary executions

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

These protestors aren't even doing terrorism yet and they treat them like trash

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

they are gonna make it a public calamity when they do

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Let's hope Kali is pregnant.

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You two simply had no right to do what you did to Sunflowers, and your arrogance in thinking otherwise deserves the strongest condemnation.

WHAT YOU DID TO SUNFLOWERS rage-cry for being an allegedly serious crime, they phrased their condemnation in the silliest way they could

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago

It's Bri'sh people, after all.

[–] pastalicious@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

I've seen the video. 10k in damage to the frame is absurd. If someone simply cleaned the soup within an hour or two of them throwing soup on it then it was as good as new. If they left it to soak in for 24 hours and damage the wood then that's negligence on the museum's part.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That plane of glass has never done more work than in this sentence. The glass did its job and the painting is fine.

By this logic if you shoot at someone and they're behind thick bullet proof glass you've legally murdered them

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Attempted Murder is a charge places.

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Shooting in the direction of someone in the full knowledge that your bullet will not possibly hit them is not attempted murder. It's.. actually not any crime.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd say it was property damage to the window so vandalism? What about intimidating? Or are you saying they person behind the window is in on the shooting for lulz?

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean, this is obviously taking the analogy too far for argument's sake. You can't intimidate a painting and soup doesn't damage glass.

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't be mad at me I'm very pro planet earth as well as pro soup

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not mad atcha, just disagreeing. It's all good mario-thumbs-up

[–] Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Your lucky your behind that glass and that I'm out of soup!

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Protecting the artwork on the Titanic is my new metaphor for how stupid this is.

I'm a big fan of art, but uncritical support for an endless flow of soup at valuable items until rich people stop killing all of us.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

Why are they putting $10k frames on soup throwing range

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

On March 30th , 1987, at Christie's London, Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh sold for £24.75 million

berdly-smug Not so priceless after all.

Also, if the pane of glass is so potentially vulnerable, why is no one telling the museum that it needs to beef up security?

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

It's just impossible to clean an oil painting covered with water soluble soup

And the price of the painting went up by a few millions for the added notoriety

Who the fuck designed the glass pane so that it didn't cover the frame?

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Didn't the UK arrest some activists before they did anything a while back? Sink that hellhole already.

[–] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The piece of glass that they knew was there and knew would stop the soup, which it did??

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

But imagine if it wasn’t there. Ever think about that?

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago

Vincent Van Gogh only sold a single painting while he was alive. His paintings were considered worthless garbage at the time. Fine art is and always has been a way for the rich to launder money.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Meanwhile, an entire US state is basically floating away from record-shattering hurricane storm surge.