{"id":1689004,"date":"2022-10-14T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1689004"},"modified":"2022-10-14T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:22:08","slug":"watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Global Warming Protesters Vandalize One Of World\u2019s Most Iconic Art Masterpieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1689004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A pair of vandals threw tomato soup one of the art world\u2019s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/see-it-how-a-museum-discovered-a-long-hidden-van-gogh-self-portrait\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrated masterpieces<\/a> at an art museum in London on Friday in a bizarre protest against fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/priceless-van-gogh-stolen-in-overnight-art-heist-targeting-museum-shuttered-by-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vincent van Gogh<\/a>\u2019s iconic \u201cSunflowers,\u201d valued at nearly $85 million was undamaged in the attack at London\u2019s National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, thanks to a glass covering. But the shocking display left museum-goers gasping and calling for security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?\u201d one of the suspects asked as shocked spectators gathered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Activists vandalise Vincent van Gogh\u2019s Sunflowers at the National Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>The vandalism or destruction of art is always an authoritarian act.<\/p>\n<p>But more than that \u2013 it represents a repudiation of civilisation and the achievements of humanity.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gLTjekvIt\">pic.twitter.com\/8gLTjekvIt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewdoyle_com\/status\/1580872772590239746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Activists vandalise Vincent van Gogh\u2019s Sunflowers at the National Gallery. <\/p>\n<p>The vandalism or destruction of art is always an authoritarian act. <\/p>\n<p>But more than that &#8211; it represents a repudiation of civilisation and the achievements of humanity.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gLTjekvIt\">pic.twitter.com\/8gLTjekvIt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewdoyle_com\/status\/1580872772590239746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two suspects glued their hands to the museum wall after dousing the painting with two cans of Heinz tomato soup at around 11 a.m. local time. London police officers arrested them \u00a0for criminal damage and aggravated trespassing.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted on Twitter by the Guardian newspaper\u2019s environment correspondent Damien Gayle and retweeted by the eco-activism group showed the incident, with the two young protesters gluing themselves to the wall after hurling the soup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure most of the pollution comes from burning oil rather than painting with it,\u201d Daily Wire host Michael Knowles <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeljknowles\/status\/1580888163261632513?s=20&amp;t=ymkwD-_5XDP5QzZqTfncHQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quipped in a tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was attributed to the protest group Just Stop Oil, members of which in July glued their hands to a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/it-fake-da-vinci-painting-fetched-450-million-joseph-curl\">Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Last Supper\u201d at a museum in London. In June, members glued themselves to another van Gogh painting, \u201cPeach Trees Blossom,\u201d at London\u2019s Courtauld Gallery, and in\u00a0May, a cross-dressing climate-change activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/man-dressed-as-woman-throws-cake-at-the-mona-lisa\">threw cake at the Mona Lisa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs art worth more than life?\u201d Just Stop Oil asked in a Friday tweet. \u201cMore than food?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Gogh painted \u201cSunflowers\u201d in 1888. It is the most famous of a series of still lives of the flowers that he painted while living in Arles, France. The troubled artist, who famously lopped off his ear after having his heart broken, died just two years later when he shot himself in the chest at age 37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of vandals threw tomato soup one of the art world\u2019s most celebrated masterpieces at an art museum in London on Friday in a bizarre protest against fossil fuels. Vincent van Gogh\u2019s iconic \u201cSunflowers,\u201d valued at nearly $85 million was undamaged in the attack at London\u2019s National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, thanks to a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Global Warming Protesters Vandalize One Of World\u2019s Most Iconic Art Masterpieces","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Global Warming Protesters Vandalize One Of World\u2019s Most Iconic Art Masterpieces","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}