Climate activists protesting fossil fuels splattered a Monet painting with mashed potatoes in Germany. The painting was not damaged.
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Climate activists in Europe again splattered food at fine art in protest of fossil fuels. This time two activists splashed mashed potatoes on glass protecting a painting by 19th century French impressionist painter Oscar-Claude Monet at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany.
Members of Last Generation, a German climate activist group, took credit Sunday for the stunt, which did not damage the painting. “If it takes a painting – with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all,” the group wrote on Twitter. “Then we'll give you #MashedPotatoes on a painting!”
The incident comes a little over a week after two activists protesting fossil fuels in Britain went viral for splashing tomato soup on glass covering a Vincent Van Gogh painting at a museum. The activists then glued themselves to a wall.
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what an awful way to spread your message “does mashed potatoes on a painting make you Listen?” No. It actually makes people double down on disagreeing with you.
Can people find a more positive way to do these protests. Art didn’t do anything to you.
If peoples are starving then why tf they wasted potatoes
😂
Wtf
You break, you pay…. now you work for the rest of your days to pay it off. Dumb…
So…let’s not only deny people the ability to heat their homes during winter…let’s also damage priceless art to add insult to injury.
I’ll burns some tires in my backyard in defiance.
Dummies after throwing food on a painting: “people are starving!!!”
Can you tell me how these people get in a museum with buckets of paint???
Don’t waste potatoes
Absolute fools.
People who have jobs don’t have time to throw potatoes. Just sayin
…did they glue their hand to the wall?