Environmental teams proceed to focus on artworks. Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece “Lady with a Pearl Earring” on the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, Netherlands, was attacked by two Simply Cease Oil supporters. One of many activists, carrying a T-shirt with the phrases Simply Cease Oil, caught his hand on the wall the place the portray was positioned, and the opposite caught his head on the portray. Sticking his head to the portray, the activist additionally spilled a can of canned tomatoes over his head.
Police detained 3 individuals
Whereas it’s not but clear whether or not the portray was broken by the assault, the police detained 3 individuals after the incident on prices of “damaging property”. After the assault, the room the place the portray was positioned was closed to guests.
“Artwork is weak”
In a press release made by the Mauritshuis Museum, “Artwork is weak and we condemn any try and hurt it for any motive. “As we don’t wish to honor this motion, we won’t remark additional.”
Local weather activists focused a number of artworks
Local weather activists tried to interrupt the glass pane containing the Mona Lisa portray on the Louvre Museum in Paris, the capital of France, final Could, after which utilized pastry cream. Two local weather activists who got here to the Nationwide Gallery in London, the capital of England, threw tomato soup on the world-famous Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” portray on October 14, after which caught their fingers on the wall.
In Germany, one other environmental group attacked Claude Monet’s Les Meules (The Heap of Grain) portray on October 23 by throwing mashed potatoes.
Simply Cease Oil activists, on October 24, on the Madame Tussauds Museum in London, the capital of England, the King of England III. Chocolate cake threw the wax statue of Charles.
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