After Mona Lisa, climate protesters throw soup at Monet painting in France
Monet
The campaign group behind throwing soup on the Mona Lisa painting in Lovre Museum in France has repeated the act with a Monet paintingin a Lyon museum.
The Musee des Beaux-Arts has said that soup was thrown on Claude Monet's "Le Printemps" (Spring) at 3:30 pm (local time) on Saturday (Feb 10).
The masterpiece, created in 1872 was behind a protective glass but the museum said that there will be close inspection and restoration of the painting. The museum also said that it would file a complaint.
According toAFP,two activists of the group behind the act have been arrested.
The group, Riposte Alimentaire or Food counterattack, accepted responsibility for the attack in a post made on social media platform X (Twitter).
In the post a 20-year-old woman named Ilona said, "we have to act now before its too late"
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The group also champions cause of sustainable supply of healthy food for all.
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It previously claimed that it was behind the attack on the Mona Lisa painting inthe Lovre Museum thatwas also behind a glass shield. The two members of the group who threw soup at the painting were ordered by a court in Paris to do volunteer work for a charity.
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Riposte Alimentaire says it is a "French civil resistance movement which aims to spur a radical societal change for the environment and society".
"We love art," the movement says, "but future artists will have nothing to paint on a burning planet."
Lyon's mayor appeared to decry the vandalism of Monet's painting. The mayor is from an ecological party. In a post on X, he said he "regretted the action" but also added that "in the face of climate emergencies, anguish is legitimate. We will respond with determined actions."
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A Monet painting has previously been a target of ecologist activists.
In October 2022, protesters from the German branch of Last Generation flung mash at "Les Meules" (The Haystacks) in a museum in Potsdam. It too was protected by glass.
(With inputs from agencies)