Eco-activists throw soup on ‘Sunflowers’
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Two environmental protesters were arrested yesterday after throwing tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting at the National Gallery in central London.
Two protesters wearing T-shirts with the slogan “Just Stop Oil” lobbed cans of soup at the iconic painting, a video posted on Twitter showed.
After gluing themselves to the wall, one of the activists shouts: “What is worth more, art or life?” “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?” she asks. They demanded a halt to new oil and gas projects taken by UK government.
It said the painting has an estimated value of $84.2 million. It was not immediately clear whether the painting is protected by glass.
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