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Climate Protesters Throw Mashed Potatoes at Monet Painting

BERLIN — Local weather protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet portray in a German museum to protest fossil gas extraction on Sunday, however induced no injury to the art work.

Two activists from the group Final Era, which has known as on the German authorities to take drastic motion to guard the local weather and cease utilizing fossil fuels, approached Monet’s “Les Meules” at Potsdam’s Barberini Museum and threw a thick substance over the portray and its gold body.

The group later confirmed by way of a publish on Twitter that the combination was mashed potatoes. The 2 activists, each carrying orange high-visibility vests, additionally glued themselves to the wall beneath the portray.

“If it takes a portray – with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to make society do not forget that the fossil gas course is killing us all: Then we’ll provide you with #MashedPotatoes on a portray!” the group wrote on Twitter, together with a video of the incident.

In complete, 4 folks had been concerned within the incident, in line with German information company dpa.

The Barberini Museum mentioned later Sunday that as a result of the portray was enclosed in glass, the mashed potatoes didn’t trigger any injury. The portray, a part of Monet’s “Haystacks” collection, is anticipated to be again on show on Wednesday.

“Whereas I perceive the activists’ pressing concern within the face of the local weather disaster, I’m shocked by the means with which they’re making an attempt to lend weight to their calls for,” museum director Ortrud Westheider mentioned in an announcement.

Police instructed dpa they’d responded to the incident, however additional details about arrests or prices was not instantly obtainable.

The Monet portray is the most recent art work in a museum to be focused by local weather activists to attract consideration to world warming.

The British group Simply Cease Oil threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s Nationwide Gallery earlier this month.

Simply Cease Oil activists additionally glued themselves to the body of an early copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Final Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and to John Constable’s “The Hay Wain” within the Nationwide Gallery.

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