Posted on 06/26/2023 4:39:43 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Environmental protest groups have been targeting art history's greatest treasures to raise awareness about climate change.
Climate activists turned up the heat this year, decrying the global environmental crisis by targeting internationally renowned art museums’ greatest treasures—and leading many onlookers to wonder how their actions actually connect with the greater good. Just last week, protesters from Just Stop Oil glued themselves to Vermeer’s iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring in the latest of their ongoing art demonstrations, previously focused on the U.K.
The same group blasted a Rolex store in London with orange paint less than 24 hours later. In response to the mounting wave, France’s culture minister called on the country’s museums last week to “redouble their vigilance.” Guards at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris subsequently stopped a Just Stop Oil protestor from gluing and souping Van Gogh’s Self-portrait in Saint Remy this weekend, as soon as the protester re
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That is sad and stupid.
They’re wearing clothing made by oil. Hypocrites.
Is it because they’re oil paintings?
It would have been glorious had somebody knocked the sh!t out of the idiots that glued their hands to the wall.
Dismount the picture. Remove the canvas, placing it in safekeeping. Approach them with a chainsaw. Turn it on.
The galleries need heavy security and bouncers of a certain size.
Just splatter their brains with a 12 gauge and call it performance art. That would put a quick end to the idiotic nonsense.
Yep. They should have their hands removed.
Art is the individualistic result of imagination. It displays the freedom of fulfilment and the releasing of the one’s inner self that the libs cannot control. It is the enemy of the left and has to be subdued and either stopped or made to appear unfavorable and to be avoided.
The left cannot allow this type of freedom that skirts their control. It is a form of slavery like the subduing of the blacks, Irish, women and Chinese, to name a few, of our past. The left can not allow people to serve another master. Art challenges their authority. And it isn’t limited to just paintings. Music and dance also fall into this attack. Anything pleasing that they do not control needs to be taken away. Trust in people and religion are right at the top of the list.
wy69
Remove the canvas and leave somewhere to soil themselves
If they want to stop oil why do they have on the clothes and shoes on that oil was needed to make them OH WAIT 15 minutes of fame.
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