Recently two "Just Stop Oil" activists entered the National Gallery in London (along w a camera person), threw a can of tomato soup onto an original 1888 painting by Vincent Van Gogh, "Sunflowers", then glued their hands to the wall while shouting, “What is worth more, art or life?” and “Is it worth more than food? More than justice?” to protest the high cost of home heating oil (their point being that some people can't afford to cook a tin of tomato soup, thus the tomato soup).
Well, you know those art lovers and museum-goers, they're a bunch of
right wing, oil rich, unconcerned selfish pricks, right? They're not
sensitive at all to people's suffering. The sarcasm of those last two
sentences is to point out the complete lack of knowing your audience -
glue your hands to the wall of Parliament, a bank, a stock corp, or more obvious, an oil company's
headquarters! But a museum?? Why, because rich people
buy expensive pieces of art with all the blood money they make from
oil?! To do that to a beautiful piece of original art is misguided
at best...despicable, disgusting, douchebaggery at worst. Fortunately,
only the frame was damaged and the glass protected the painting which
was cleaned and returned to its spot the same day.
Did these delusional Campbell Soup kids get alot of press and social media views of the video of them
making flaming assholes of themselves? Yes. Did they garner any sympathy
for their cause? No. Did they bring attention to oil costs and be asked
to lecture about it like Greta and the climate? Nope. Did they make
themselves impossible to be taken seriously in any way, shape or form?
Yes. Should they go to jail? Absolutely, and all three have been charged with criminal damage offenses. I'm not against a demonstration
or event to get attention, but destroying art? I'd sat they should be
made to replicate that creature from the Human Centipede movie, except
their heads are already far up eachothers' arses.
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