Another attack by climate activists in a museum in France: they have now thrown soup on a Monet painting

This Saturday, two climate and social activists threw soup at a painting by the famous impressionist painter. Claude Monet exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, east of France. The work object of the action is “The springs” (Spring), 1872.

The attackers are part of the group “Food Response” (Food Response), the same one to which two other young people belonged who on January 28 also threw soup on “La Gioconda”, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

In both cases, and in others that occurred previously in other museums in different countries by different environmental groups, The works were protected by glasstherefore they suffered no permanent damage.

The French group justified its action by saying that “this spring is the only one we will have left if we don’t react”.

“Riposte Alimentaire” seeks an alternative solution to the climate challenge and food security, proposing that food be included in the social security system as part of a transformation of agriculture to make it more sustainable and fairly remunerate professionals in the sector.

It is not clear how this series of acts of vandalism could benefit the ecology or cause changes in eating habits, as they postulate. In October 2022 they were there attacked Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” with tomato soup, in the National Gallery in London, for example.

In the case of the attack on the Mona Lisa – also known as the Mona Lisa – the two women received a proposal from the French justice system: to pay a “citizen contribution” to have the case dismissed.

The activists sprinkled pumpkin soup on the painting, after having introduced it hidden in a coffee thermos. From “Riposte Alimentaire” they claim to have done so “to defend the right to a healthy and sustainable diet” and to denounce a “sick agricultural system”.