LONDON.- Of the activists environmental groups Just Stop Oil that dumped tomato soup about the painting The sunflowers of Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery in London in 2022 were found guilty of damage on Thursday by the British justice system.
Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, both 22, were found guilty at Southwark Crown Court in London. They will be sentenced on 27 September.
Attack on the work
On October 14, 2022, the two carried out this spectacular action that only slightly gives a glimpse of the frame surrounding the 1888 work, protected by glass.
At the time, Just Stop Oil was demanding an immediate halt to any new oil or gas projects in the UK, a move that was taken by the new Labour government.
The group is now calling for an end to fossil fuels by 2030.
Wearing T-shirts reading ‘Just Stop Oil’, the two young women threw the contents of two cans of preserved soup onto the painting.
After sticking her foot against a wall, one of them, Phoebe Plummer, exclaimed: “What is more valuable, art or life?”
“Are you more concerned about protecting a painting than protecting our planet and its inhabitants?” he asked.
Since this spectacular action, other environmental activists have targeted other internationally renowned works of art, including the Mona Lisa at the Louvre museum in Paris, whose armoured display case was sprayed with soup.
FUENTE: AFP