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Just Stop Oil protesters threw cans of tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting at London’s National Gallery.

Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.

The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects, said activists dumped two cans of tomato soup over the oil painting, one of the Dutch artist’s most iconic works. The two protesters also glued themselves to the gallery wall.

The soup splashed across the glass covering the painting and its gilded frame. The gallery said “there is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed.” The work is one of several versions of “Sunflowers” that Van Gogh painted in the late 1880s.

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[M.A.C.]

“Hungry families…They can’t even afford to heat a tin of soup” She says as she wastes a can of soup.

[FirstNameLastName-wtto]

All these people do is turn people against them. Like toddlers throwing a tantrum in the supermarket because they want candy.

[epsilon]

I love the irony, the one who talks with the dyed hair, that colour is, if im not mistaken, "magenta 2" and one of the ingredients is petroleum

[pacotaco]

Anti petroleum yet uses hair dye. Probably has a cellphone too.
Oil paintings don't even use the kind of oil they are fighting against. 🤦

[danic]

Shoutouts to the guy who said "let's go art!" when they asked "what is worth more, art or life?"

[Protect_all_ljfforms]

Don’t know who they are but now I’m against them

[jun-ri]

“Families cant even afford to heat a tin of soup”
*Spills soup on the art*

[matthewsmith]

Preaching against hunger while they waste food 😂 You can’t make this up. Go, wokesters, go!

[carmix]

People who can't treat other people's important things with care can't have their own important things treated with care.

[phatec]

It’s not the paint that makes it valuable, it’s the artist in history that created the art piece, respect the artist.

[Bauks]

Wearing shirts that were shipped halfway around the world with oil. In jeans shipped halfway around the world with oil. In shoes shipped halfway around the world with oil. Using hair care products derived from oil. Throwing canned soup that was transported to their local store with oil. I also assume they took an oil-consuming means of transportation to the museum. SMH...

[geessaess]

Try this in China, you’d get life in prison lol

[bribri]

“these people can’t even afford a tin of tomato soup” PROCEEDS TO THROW THAT TOMATO SOUP

[divyanshchaudhary]

Without oil they wont even survive the winter
These kids really need education

[samleggamer]

"What is worth more, art or life?"
"Any art is worth more than YOUR life m'am"

[campeãodomundo]

Well, that art is worth more that their life.

[MougliX]

Art is the only pure thing on this planet. Why would anyone destroy it to make a statement? Even if it's covered by glass this is just so disrespectful...

[NawleyRoblox]

I’m pretty sure the painting was covered by glass protection, so thankfully the artwork isn’t ruined

[PB-K]

Having to pay a multi million dollar fine, 7 years in prison, and the fact that u could have used that soup to donate to poor families. Thinks they are special 🤦

[qualityherbsonly]

Seriously? Wtf? There are better ways of getting your message out there. All they did was create a bunch of people that hate them.