PARS.- A activist was arrested on Saturday for pasting a sticky poster on a chart of Monet, protected by glass, in the Orsay Museum in Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source told AFP.
In a video posted on the social network Poppies (Poppies) by Claude Monet, French impressionist painter.
“This nightmarish image is what awaits us if no alternative is put in place,” the activist says in the video, referring to the sticker that shows an apocalyptic landscape in flames.
Monet’s painting, completed in 1873 and showing people with parasols strolling through a field of poppies, is protected by glass.
“After being examined and treated by a restorer, the work was hung again,” the museum management told AFP, announcing its intention to file a lawsuit.
protests
Riposte Alimentaire has claimed responsibility for several attacks on works of art in an attempt to draw attention to the climate crisis.
These include soup attacks on the Louvre’s Mona Lisa and another Monet painting, Primavera, at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon in February.
Last month, activists from the group posted leaflets around Freedom guiding the peoplea painting by Eugne Delacroix in the Louvre.
In April, two of its members were arrested at the Orsay Museum, suspected of preparing an action.
FUENTE: AFP
