The question is why? Surely sunflower oil is a bio fuel. In fact I used to use it in a old Land Rover.
Brainless twats, they should be promoting sunflowers.
How is throwing soup on a painting going to help with climate change? This is just mindless vandalism by attention seeking muppets
How does this help their cause?
I hope they are arrested, fined and jailed for it.
it’s a lot less punk when you realise it has a glass cover on it
I haven’t seen a verified source yet, but I’m assuming the painting is displayed behind protective glass?
I think these lot are plants by big oil corps so people get more pissed at them then the oil companies. Cause the stuff they are doing is just so daft and makes no sense what so ever
I’m sure as a result of this, thousands of people will be ditching their cars and buying a bike and Shell and BP will announce that they won’t be opening any new drilling sites.
Great job guys.
Kind of a weird protest and not exactly helpful to the cause, but it’s genuinely astonishing going on Twitter and Facebook and seeing hoards of middle aged baldos calling for the reinstatement of public executions because some kids threw soup on a painting
Cutting off your own ear as a statement would have made more sense.
I’m convinced people who do this are plants to damage the reputation of climate activists.
Important to note that for every stupid protest like this that makes national headlines there are a dozen well targeted ones you’ll never hear about. It’s not that climate activism is only ever directionless bullshit like this but that the media selectively amplifies the protests that nobody supports.
>The choice of protest was supposed symbolise the fact that many families
in the UK can’t afford to heat a tin of soup due to the rise in the
cost of living.
Why on earth are they targetting art, in the national gallery, which is free to enter, over this?
Seems utterly pointless and unhinged. The painting has a sheet of glass over it, so it’s going to be wiped clean. And then glueing themselves to a wall?
The fuck?! Go throw tins of soup at westminster, or big ben, or something like that. What made them think this was even a logical idea?
To everyone raging. It’s just a panel of glass the artworks are encased.
> Just Stop Oil activists threw a tin of Heinz Tomato Soup over Vincent Van Gough’s iconic Sunflowers painting
Andy Warhol collab with Van Gough – only it’s Heinz
Eco protest groups almost always have my support, climate change is going to devastate us, 40C summers in the UK will become the norm, people will die due to the heat, refugee numbers will increase dramatically. We need to leave as much oil as possible in the ground.
That said, this action is galactically counterproductive and those who planned and took part are either very very stupid or actively trying to undermine green causes.
That artwork is just as valuable, and just as irreplaceable, as a forest.
This is just mindless vandalism at this point
I get protests are meant to cause inconvenience but this isn’t inconvenience it’s just criminal damage and only drives people away from their cause and distracts from the original message which is actually quite important
What the fuck does a classic painting have to do with the cause??
People wanna start shaking these clowns around by the collars.
Twats. This is exactly what turns people against the cause.
Throw soup over an oil tanker and people would laugh it off, throwing soup over a famous painting is just going to convince people that you’re total and utter loonies.
There is always a tipping point with this type of protesting, where judges start throwing near maximum sentences at some point to ‘Reflect public outrage’. Not saying it’s right but a few of these protestors are going to be surprised at suddenly finding themselves facing long stints in prison for something that might have just been a caution before.
It’s behind glass you can let go of your pearls.
Doing this gets a headline. That’s the whole reason they’re doing it. The painting is fine.
I remember when they chained themselves around the Speaker’s chair in the Commons. That’s the kind of action that people might be more supportive of. It had exposure because of where they were AND it targeted people/institutions that actually have power to change things.
Making normal people’s lives a misery and attacking inanimate objects (especially ones with so much cultural value) isn’t the way. Unless of course you want to turn people off from the cause you claim to represent.
Why are they always borgeosie looking, middle class, sociology students from a low ranking university? Every single one of these fuckwits probably comes from a wealthy background, a 5 bedroom detached in Sussex, and hates their dad.
Shit, I was there yesterday, looking at that very painting (and all the others of course).
A lot of people in there, enjoying the art. It really is fantastic that you can go in for free and have a close look at so many original works by so many great artists.
Since I last went (quite a few years ago) it looks like they have already gated off the main entrance off Trafalger Square so you have to go in through the Sainsbury wing. I guess that is for security, although they weren’t exactly frisking everybody on the way in.
Hopefully the painting is not damaged, although it isn’t impossible that some soup might have seeped behind the glass.
The losers here will be the ordinary people who visit the gallery. More intrusive security, maybe queues to get in, or limiting the numbers so they can keep a closer eye on everyone. More physical barriers so you can’t have a close look, some of the more important works taken off public display, maybe even charging an entrance fee.
When idiots do stupid stuff like this, it dimishes all our lives.
Of course, climate change is an important issue, but nobody who really has the power to do anything about it is going to give a shit about this protest. The same as causing traffic disruption that stops people getting to work in the morning. It just makes ordinary people’s lives that bit more miserable, and makes no difference at all to those in power.
I take it they are protected by glass or something
Title should read: Protester throws can of soup on glass window protecting Van Gogh painting.
It bears repeating, that no one, absolutely no one, should have to protest this ’cause’. Because it isn’t a cause, it’s the simple fact that governments need to take utterly obvious, sensible action to protect our planet for us and future generations, and no one at all should have to protest, lobby, write letters or otherwise go out of their way to get them to do that. It *should* be one of their main priorities, if not in fact their main one, for quite transparent reasons.
The mere fact any of this is happening should demonstrate the direness of our society at this juncture.
People that say this pushes them away are fucking stupid. We are in a climate and biodiversity crisis right now. If protesters who haven’t caused any damage are enough to put you off trying to save the planet and the incredible life it hosts then you are mind numbingly idiotic and reactionary.
I’ll say it, van Gogh is overrated.
Not enough to try to destroy his paintings though.
This reminds me of that girl who threw a bucket of shit over Capt Tom’s memorial.
I’m starting to see a pattern with these protestors. They find some public symbol that’s completely unrelated to the topic they want to protest about, attempt to damage or deface it and then use the publicity to somehow try and link it to their cause. Also they tend to be unemployed college dropouts in their late teens or early twenties.
These kind of people validate right-wing stereotypes about climate-related protestors and give these movements a bad name.
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The question is why? Surely sunflower oil is a bio fuel. In fact I used to use it in a old Land Rover.
Brainless twats, they should be promoting sunflowers.
How is throwing soup on a painting going to help with climate change? This is just mindless vandalism by attention seeking muppets
How does this help their cause?
I hope they are arrested, fined and jailed for it.
it’s a lot less punk when you realise it has a glass cover on it
I haven’t seen a verified source yet, but I’m assuming the painting is displayed behind protective glass?
I think these lot are plants by big oil corps so people get more pissed at them then the oil companies. Cause the stuff they are doing is just so daft and makes no sense what so ever
I’m sure as a result of this, thousands of people will be ditching their cars and buying a bike and Shell and BP will announce that they won’t be opening any new drilling sites.
Great job guys.
Kind of a weird protest and not exactly helpful to the cause, but it’s genuinely astonishing going on Twitter and Facebook and seeing hoards of middle aged baldos calling for the reinstatement of public executions because some kids threw soup on a painting
Cutting off your own ear as a statement would have made more sense.
I’m convinced people who do this are plants to damage the reputation of climate activists.
Important to note that for every stupid protest like this that makes national headlines there are a dozen well targeted ones you’ll never hear about. It’s not that climate activism is only ever directionless bullshit like this but that the media selectively amplifies the protests that nobody supports.
>The choice of protest was supposed symbolise the fact that many families
in the UK can’t afford to heat a tin of soup due to the rise in the
cost of living.
Why on earth are they targetting art, in the national gallery, which is free to enter, over this?
Seems utterly pointless and unhinged. The painting has a sheet of glass over it, so it’s going to be wiped clean. And then glueing themselves to a wall?
The fuck?! Go throw tins of soup at westminster, or big ben, or something like that. What made them think this was even a logical idea?
To everyone raging. It’s just a panel of glass the artworks are encased.
> Just Stop Oil activists threw a tin of Heinz Tomato Soup over Vincent Van Gough’s iconic Sunflowers painting
Andy Warhol collab with Van Gough – only it’s Heinz
Eco protest groups almost always have my support, climate change is going to devastate us, 40C summers in the UK will become the norm, people will die due to the heat, refugee numbers will increase dramatically. We need to leave as much oil as possible in the ground.
That said, this action is galactically counterproductive and those who planned and took part are either very very stupid or actively trying to undermine green causes.
That artwork is just as valuable, and just as irreplaceable, as a forest.
This is just mindless vandalism at this point
I get protests are meant to cause inconvenience but this isn’t inconvenience it’s just criminal damage and only drives people away from their cause and distracts from the original message which is actually quite important
What the fuck does a classic painting have to do with the cause??
People wanna start shaking these clowns around by the collars.
Twats. This is exactly what turns people against the cause.
Throw soup over an oil tanker and people would laugh it off, throwing soup over a famous painting is just going to convince people that you’re total and utter loonies.
There is always a tipping point with this type of protesting, where judges start throwing near maximum sentences at some point to ‘Reflect public outrage’. Not saying it’s right but a few of these protestors are going to be surprised at suddenly finding themselves facing long stints in prison for something that might have just been a caution before.
It’s behind glass you can let go of your pearls.
Doing this gets a headline. That’s the whole reason they’re doing it. The painting is fine.
I remember when they chained themselves around the Speaker’s chair in the Commons. That’s the kind of action that people might be more supportive of. It had exposure because of where they were AND it targeted people/institutions that actually have power to change things.
Making normal people’s lives a misery and attacking inanimate objects (especially ones with so much cultural value) isn’t the way. Unless of course you want to turn people off from the cause you claim to represent.
Why are they always borgeosie looking, middle class, sociology students from a low ranking university? Every single one of these fuckwits probably comes from a wealthy background, a 5 bedroom detached in Sussex, and hates their dad.
Shit, I was there yesterday, looking at that very painting (and all the others of course).
A lot of people in there, enjoying the art. It really is fantastic that you can go in for free and have a close look at so many original works by so many great artists.
Since I last went (quite a few years ago) it looks like they have already gated off the main entrance off Trafalger Square so you have to go in through the Sainsbury wing. I guess that is for security, although they weren’t exactly frisking everybody on the way in.
Hopefully the painting is not damaged, although it isn’t impossible that some soup might have seeped behind the glass.
The losers here will be the ordinary people who visit the gallery. More intrusive security, maybe queues to get in, or limiting the numbers so they can keep a closer eye on everyone. More physical barriers so you can’t have a close look, some of the more important works taken off public display, maybe even charging an entrance fee.
When idiots do stupid stuff like this, it dimishes all our lives.
Of course, climate change is an important issue, but nobody who really has the power to do anything about it is going to give a shit about this protest. The same as causing traffic disruption that stops people getting to work in the morning. It just makes ordinary people’s lives that bit more miserable, and makes no difference at all to those in power.
I take it they are protected by glass or something
Title should read: Protester throws can of soup on glass window protecting Van Gogh painting.
It bears repeating, that no one, absolutely no one, should have to protest this ’cause’. Because it isn’t a cause, it’s the simple fact that governments need to take utterly obvious, sensible action to protect our planet for us and future generations, and no one at all should have to protest, lobby, write letters or otherwise go out of their way to get them to do that. It *should* be one of their main priorities, if not in fact their main one, for quite transparent reasons.
The mere fact any of this is happening should demonstrate the direness of our society at this juncture.
People that say this pushes them away are fucking stupid. We are in a climate and biodiversity crisis right now. If protesters who haven’t caused any damage are enough to put you off trying to save the planet and the incredible life it hosts then you are mind numbingly idiotic and reactionary.
I’ll say it, van Gogh is overrated.
Not enough to try to destroy his paintings though.
This reminds me of that girl who threw a bucket of shit over Capt Tom’s memorial.
I’m starting to see a pattern with these protestors. They find some public symbol that’s completely unrelated to the topic they want to protest about, attempt to damage or deface it and then use the publicity to somehow try and link it to their cause. Also they tend to be unemployed college dropouts in their late teens or early twenties.
These kind of people validate right-wing stereotypes about climate-related protestors and give these movements a bad name.