Activists jailed for throwing soup on Sunflowers

A Getty funds Just Stop Oil. I wonder if this is 'crisis actor' bullshit they create to make evironmentalists look like depraved assholes.

Dumb bitches

Well, they wanted lots of attention. Now they have it.

Also, of all things oil to be going after ... oil paintings? They might as well go after vegetable oil.

Excellent news.

Are not all the priceless paintings really reproductions on display? The real deal is kept in the back.

I hope they are targets in prison.

By art lovers, r7?

What did Vincent ever do to *them*?

R8 By the violent criminally insane,

What is that at r1?

Any art experts on here? How do they fix the paintings when dumb cunts do something like this?

Two years isn’t enough. Ten years hard labor is preferable.

Sorry, aren’t.

R14 No, you were right—an amount of time takes the singular.

R12 That painting is under glass. No damage done.

The damage is to the frame which is a valuable piece in its own right.

They want to be martyrs, stick their asses in jail for the next decade.

I've seen Sunflowers in person. It looks better in person. It looks like it's lit from behind, somehow.

Two years is not nearly enough.

If you attempt to destroy a priceless piece of art, you should also be fined 10X the value of the piece. As Sunflowers is worth several hundred million dollars, I think we could call it even if the fine were $1 billion.

Also, you should have to stay in jail until the fine is paid.

I was fortunate enough to see 2 Van Gogh exhibitions....one in Philadelphia in the early 1970s and the big one at the Met in 1984.

Back in those days you could get pretty close to the paintings and there was no protection.

At the Met show I remember reading the card for one of the paintings and noticing it was on loan from Elizabeth Taylor.

That painting sold a few years ago for 40 million. Liz had it hanging in her living room. Imagine.

I was intrigued about Liz owning a Van Gogh. Here's the story:

(She died in 2011. Sold at auction in 2012 for $16 mil.

Purchased by Liz's father in 1963. Father was an art dealer, It was indeed in her living room.

The impressionists are going to rough them up in prison.

They should take them out in public and conk their heads together, toss them in a vat of soup and then send them to prison.

If I were a billionaire, I'd be buying art to ensure that it doesn't get hidden away by other billionaires. I'd then "loan" it to various museums.

When they go and create inconveniences for the actual executives responsible for discouraging climate change initiatives, then I'll start to think they're not just bored, narcissistic attention seekers.

And look at that picture. Pink hair, baggy, genderless clothing. Way to be a walking a stereotype.

BRAVO! Enough of this shit. She can paint with soup on her prison wall. Welcome to the real world.

A few weeks ago a Stop Oil snowflake was sentence to prison for blocking traffic and the mother that created this entitled idiot could only talk about how Cressandra, or some annoying, pompous name like that, was going to miss her brother's wedding. No word about the impact of her snowflake's actions on the lives of many people. There really needs to be consequences for all this ridiculous behavior.

These idiots are going to cause museums to put great works behind glass. It is not the same visual experience and the paints were never meant to be experienced that way.

I think people who block traffic should just be turned into roadkill.

[quote]Sold at auction in 2012 for $16 mil.

And sold again (Christie's) in 2018 for $39,687,500.

The Mona Lisa was behind glass and behind some velvet ropes when I saw it. This was a long time ago. If you can believe it, I was the only one looking at it, at that moment.

In 1963?

Boys will be girls..

Soup!

R30, no, but maybe 20 years ago. It was also in the fall, before the holidays.

Reality is dumb people are stupid and the whole scenario is ridiculous. Art should never be "worth" millions of dollars People shouldn't use defacing beautiful creations as a way to have a voice so their planet doesn't cook. I can see the kids point, they're frustrated because people refuse to be inconvenienced by change. These naive brats are going to be jailed at the expense of the taxpayer which is also stupid.

When they’re released from prison, they should have to serve in a soup kitchen for the homeless for another couple of years. Day in,day out, serving tomato soup!

That..is caneface, r11. Pure unadulterated caneface.

Soup Nazis

The one on the right sho is ugly

Why is the museum always empty when they pull these stunts. I have not been to an empty museum in years. Huge lines and huge awful crowds

Meanwhile Huw Edwards got a suspended sentence for possessing child porn.

Cut their fucking hands off.

They should both be locked up forever, r40.

I hope they get shanked.

Call me when they dump sunflower oil on these:

Luckily that didn't happen in the US, where they would be given ten hrs of community service and be forced to take a class in art appreciation.

They should be banned for life from all museums, libraries, etc.

I think I read somewhere the Mona Lis is behind several inches (4-6?) of laminated polycarbonate. That's going to keep a small explosive away.

it's probably a fake one. the real one is in a bank vault somewhere.

I'm tired of these performative demonstrations - blocking car traffic, throwing orange shit on buildings/planes/whatever, threatening to destroy artwork and vandalize other things.

NONE OF THIS WORKS. Bunch of brats trying to get attention.

They would do better to create social media campaigns or really ANYTHING else.

They think 'oh this is great - I'll get this in the press all over the world' - yes you will and NOBODY will support you. You've just amplified opposition - not support.

Elizabeth Taylor smoked two packs a day. I can just imagine her cleaning lady going over that Van Gogh with Lemon Pledge.