A local weather activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet portray on the Musee d’Orsay in Paris to attract consideration to world warming, a police supply advised AFP.
The motion by the girl, a member of “Riposte Alimentaire” (Meals Response) — a bunch of environmental activists and defenders of sustainable meals manufacturing — was seen in a video posted on X, previously Twitter, putting a blood-red poster over the “Coquelicots” (Poppies) portray by Claude Monet, a French Impressionist painter.
Within the video she stated of the poster protecting Monet’s artwork that “this nightmarish picture awaits us if no different is put in place”.
Monet’s portray, accomplished in 1873, reveals folks with umbrellas strolling in a blooming poppy discipline.
It was not protected by glass. The Musee d’Orsay didn’t instantly reply to an AFP request for touch upon the situation of the portray after the assault.
Riposte Alimentaire has claimed duty for a number of assaults on artwork in a bid to attract consideration to the local weather disaster.
They embrace soup assaults on the Mona Lisa within the Louvre, and on one other Monet portray, “Springtime”, within the Lyon Effective Arts Museum in February.
Final month activists belonging to the group caught flyers round “Liberty Main the Individuals”, a portray by Eugene Delacroix within the Louvre.
In April, two of its members had been arrested on the Musee d’Orsay suspected of getting ready an motion there.
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