Posted on 02/16/2024 10:56:20 AM PST by DallasBiff
An angry scream. A pained moan. An astonished “Oh my gosh.”
Those were the first three reactions that could be heard after two British climate activists threw tomato soup on one of Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings at the National Gallery in London in a video that went ultra-viral earlier this month.
The emotional register of those reactions — rage, sadness, shock — were a preview of what was to come. They foreshadowed the most common responses countless people on social media had to the action, during which one activist queried: “What is worth more? Art or life?”
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OMG they’re eating Beans ,LOL
If I were dictator of my own little obscure country I would take pleasure in personally executing them.
I would not allow lowly functionaries to have all the fun.
;-)
That’s why they don’t do it there. They know they can get away with it in the US and Western Europe. Only way to get them to stop is to make it unpleasant for them.
WHY is YOUTH wasted on the YOUNG??
The issue is I could have sex and create a person. But there is nothing I or anyone else could do to create a Vincent Van Gogh painting! So stop damaging irreplaceable work of art.
Powerful? What a bunch of nonsense propaganda.
Good thing I’m not in charge. These assholes would be put down as you would a rabid dog before the day was over.
“As far as “powerful”, really? “Stupid” is another word that comes to mind.”
Desperately stupid and rightfully powerless.
Remove the painting, though. They can perform without it.
Water cannons. I like water cannons.
The real result of all of this barbaric vandalism will be more security, and more barriers between fine art and the world’s cultural heritage, and sincere viewers and art lovers. I remember when some crazy took a hammer to Michelangelo’s”Pieta” in 1970. Evil is always with us, I’m afraid.
And now idiots are defaming themselves with theses provocations with a threatened descent into a new dark age. Perhaps physical intervention and a few twisted wrists are necessary to prevent bratty children from damaging art that is more important than they will ever be.
Help them protest. Nail their hands to the wall.
“My brain is full of mush and I’m angry, so I will destroy fine art.”
I know the passion of youth is important. But must it come with such stupidity?
Logic must be a foreign language.
Office linebacker….
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