In another instance of climate activism, an environmental protester from Riposte Alimentaire, French for “Food Response”, got arrested on Saturday for slapping a sticker over famed painter Claude Monet’s “Poppy Fields” at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay.
The group has been targeting art pieces in an attempt to lure attention to the threat of climate change on food supplies. The activist covered most of the painting with a sticky, blood-red sign depicting the same exact scene post-apocalypse.
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The demonstrator stripped off her jacket after slapping the sticker over the prominent painting, created in 1873. She exposed a t-shirt carrying a slogan related to a 4 degrees Celsius global temperature increase. She got detained soon after, as per reports.
France 24 quoted the protester as saying: “This nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place.” Moreover, the group noted that the sticker is supposed to represent a “nightmare version” of the field in 2100, if action is not taken against climate change.
“This is what Claude Monet would have painted in 2100 if no radical action was taken to curb climate change by them,” the group stressed on social media. But the Saturday incident has triggered outrage among netizens, even those sharing the climate concerns.
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“You could be investing energy into making real change happen instead of destroying a dead man’s work of art,” one commented. “Yes, but that is tarnishing a painting that represents a huge amount of work, and Claude Monet has done a lot for our landscapes” said another.
Riposte Alimentaire is the same group behind the hurling of pumpkin soup on Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” at the Louvre Museum back in January. Climate activists have been making controversial moves lately to highlight the deepening climate crisis and its consequences.
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