Sunday 2 June 2024

Climate Lunatic Attacks Monet

Climate activist detained after sticking protest sign on to Monet painting in Paris' famed Orsay museum

A climate activist has been detained today after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris' famed Orsay museum.

The protester, from French environmental activist group Riposte Alimentaire ('Food Counterattack'), targeted 'Poppy Field' by Claude Monet, defacing it with a sticker that covered half the painting with an apocalyptic vision of the same scene.

The group said it's purpose is to show how the field would look 'ravaged by flames and drought' in the year 2100, if more action isn't taken against climate change.

The museum, known in French as the Musee d'Orsay, is a top tourist destination and home to some of the world's most-loved Impressionist works.

The woman was detained pending investigation, according to Paris police.

A climate activist has been detained today after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris' famed Orsay museum

The protester, from French environmental activist group Riposte Alimentaire ('Food Counterattack'), targeted 'Poppy Field' by Claude Monet (pictured)

The museum, known in French as the Musee d'Orsay, is a top tourist destination and home to some of the world's most-loved Impressionist works

It was unclear whether the incident damaged the painting and the museum did not respond to requests for comment.

It was the latest of several actions by protesters from the group to target artworks in France to call for action to protect food supplies from further damage to the climate.

In January, two members of the group were arrested after throwing soup at the Mona Lisa before shouting climate slogans at the gathered crowd at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The activist applying the sticker that covered half the painting with an apocalyptic vision of the same scene

The group said it's purpose is to show how the field would look 'ravaged by flames and drought' in the year 2100, if more action isn't taken against climate change

They sprayed the 16th-century masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci with pumpkin soup as they demanded the right to 'healthy and sustainable food'.

The group have taken responsibility for the demonstration on their own website in, what they call, 'Wave 1' of their action.

In February, the group disrupted the European Bioethics Forum, a debate in Strasbourg, France, by walking on stage and demanding action for their cause.

A few days later, they hurled soup at Claude Monet's 'Le Printemps' (Spring) inside the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, France.

The 1872 painting was protected by glass, but still underwent a close inspection and restoration, the museum said after the incident.

In January, two members of the group were arrested after throwing soup at the Mona Lisa before shouting climate slogans at the gathered crowd at the Louvre Museum in Paris

In February, they hurled soup at Claude Monet's 'Le Printemps' (Spring) inside the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, France

The 1872 painting 'Le Printemps'

Riposte Alimentaire ('Food counterattack') claimed the attack, with a woman identifying herself 20-year-old Ilona (pictured) saying 'we have to act now before it is too late'

In March, the disrupted the Saut Hermes 2024, an annual horse jumping show in Paris, to display a banner which referenced British suffragette Emily Davison who was killed by King George V's horse

The following month, Riposte Alimentaire disrupted the Saut Hermes 2024, an annual horse jumping show in Paris, with members infiltrating the arena to hold a protest banner.

Last month, the group threw orange powder over the floor of the Palace of Versailles' famous Hall of Mirrors building and chanted their calls for establishing social security for sustainable food in the country.

They are advocating for a monthly vital food card loaded with 150 Euros for all citizens to purchase democratically approved products, saying that there is a 'widening gap between the privileged few and the majority struggling to make ends meet'.

Eco-morons hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting at the Louvre in Paris

The duo stand in front of the splattered artwork with one revealing a white t-shirt with the words 'Riposte Alimentaire' ('Food counterattack')

This is the moment the eco zealots hurl tomato soup at the Mona Lisa

Last year, climate activists waded into the waters of Rome's world-famous Trevi Fountain and poured in a black liquid to symbolise oil

Eco-vandals in Italy are set to be fined up to £50,000 under a new law aiming to stop environmental protests

Extinction Rebellion activists turned Venice's canals green

Three environmental activists attached themselves to the glass cover of the iconic renaissance painting Primavera ('Spring', by Botticelli, late 1400s) in the Sala Botticelli of the Uffizi Gallery in Italy

A security guard drags the protesters away from the painting

Activists from Last Generation threw flour over a car painted by the Pop Art icon Andy Warhol that was on display in Milan's Fabbrica del Vapore art centre

2 activists (pictured) from the Just Stop Oil group grabbed headlines when they splashed tomato soup over the glass protecting Dutch master Vincent van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' at the National Gallery in London

Two activists in Germany threw mash potatoes over Claude Monet's 'Les Meules' painting in Potsdam's Barberini museum

Then: Monet tried all sorts of exotic lilies in pinks, whites, blues and yellows. A team of eight kept them pristine

Monet painted all sorts of exotic lilies in pinks, whites, blues and yellows

Then: The beds are bursting with gladioli and the nasturtiums are beginning their annual creep across the paths. Monet would have painted this in summer

Flower beds bursting with gladioli and the nasturtiums beginning their annual creep across the paths. Monet painted this in summer time.

Then: Yellow and white lilies, yellow gladioli and fading irises provide the colour. The willow and ash trees and bamboo provide the lush green backdrop. The wisteria is yet to take over the Japanese bridge

Yellow and white lilies, yellow gladioli and fading irises. The willow and ash trees and bamboo provide the lush green backdrop. The wisteria is yet to take over Monet's Japanese bridge

Claude Monet

When war broke out in 1914, and Europe began its ‘race into the abyss’ Monet was determined not to flee. Throughout the war he never stopped working

Monet transformed a parcel of marshland into his famous water garden

Claude Monet 'Saule pleureur et bassin aux nymphéas'.

The transfixing qualities in impressionist Claude Monet's art

Monet used different colored brushstrokes next to one another and doesn't blend them in, resulting in a phenomenon called simultaneous contrast. Simultaneous contrast occurs when the same color appears differently when placed alongside a different color

Claude Monet's monumental work, the Agapanathus Triptych

The Agapanathus Triptych was inspired by Monet's pond (pictured) in his famed garden at Giverny, just west of Paris

The 42ft long painting by Monet is named after the plant, also known as the African Lily or the Lily of the Nile, which grew in his garden in Giverny

A visitor takes a look at the Nympheas by Claude Monet, another of his epic paintings, in the renovated Orangerie Museum in the Tuileries garden in Paris

Monet was happiest among the plants and flowers that had inspired him since he first took up a brush (pictured: Monet's Le Bassin aux Nympheas, Harmonie Verte, 1899). At bottom in red is Monet's signature.

Monet’s riotously colourful garden paintings (pictured: Monet's Le Bassin aux Nymphéas, Harmonie Verte, 1899)

Seeing things differently: After Claude Monet had the lens of his left eye completely removed he started seeing - and painting - in ultraviolet as this Water-lily Pond painting from 1926 shows

This painting of waterlilies, which is signed by Monet and dated 1908 has spent the past 80 years in a private collection, is set to sell for 35 million pounds.

Claude Monet visits London, The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog), 1903-1904