Activist arrested for attacking Monet painting in Paris

Lina PortmanJune 1, 2024

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A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source told AFP.

The action of the woman, a member of the “Food Response” – a group of environmental activists and defenders of sustainable food production – was seen in a video published on X, formerly Twitter, placing a blood-red poster. on the painting “Poppies” by Claude Monet, French impressionist painter.

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A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source told AFP.

In the video, she says of the poster covering Monet's art that “this nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place.”

Monet's painting, completed in 1873, depicts people with umbrellas walking through a field of blooming poppies.

It was not protected by glass. The Musée d'Orsay did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment on the condition of the painting after the attack.

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The Food Response has claimed responsibility for several attacks on art in order to draw attention to the climate crisis.

Among them were attacks on the Mona Lisa at the Louvre and another painting by Monet, “Spring”, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in February.

Last month, activists belonging to the group pasted leaflets around “Liberty Leading the People,” a painting by Eugène Delacroix on display at the Louvre.

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In April, two of its members were arrested at the Musée d'Orsay, suspected of preparing an action there.

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