The German protesters smeared mashed potatoes on Claude Monet’s ‘Haystacks’ before gluing their hands to a wall
German climate activists vandalized one of Claude Monet’s ‘Haystacks’ paintings with mashed potatoes on Sunday, before gluing their hands to the gallery wall. The stunt came a week after British eco-warriors defaced Vincent van Gogh’s iconic ‘Sunflowers’.
Two activists from a group calling itself Letzte Generation (Last Generation) entered the Museum Barberini in Potsdam and slung handfuls of mashed potatoes over the painting, which is displayed behind protective glass.
“People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying,” one of the activists shouted. “If it takes pelting a painting with mashed potato or tomato soup to remind society that the fossil course is killing us all, then we give you mashed potato on a painting.”
#Kartoffelbrei auf #Monet:
Was ist mehr wert #FürAlle – Kunst oder Leben?Monet liebte die Natur und hielt ihre fragile Schönheit in seinen Werken fest.
Warum haben viele mehr Angst davor, dass eines dieser Abbilder Schaden nimmt, als vor der Zerstörung unserer Welt selbst? pic.twitter.com/0Rh1ZS6yjk
— Letzte Generation (@AufstandLastGen) October 23, 2022