Активисти се лепе за Ван Гогову слику у протесту против климатских промена

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Two activists glued themselves to the frame of a Vincent van Gogh painting at the Courtauld Gallery in London Thursday, protesting the art world’s seeming complicity with climate change.

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Louis McKechnie, 21, and Emily Brocklebank, 24, glued themselves to “Дрвеће брескве у цвету,” a painting of the French countryside Van Gogh completed in 1889, just weeks after he slashed his own ear off during a period of mental instability.

It’s unclear if the stunt damaged the painting.

The two belong to Just Stop Oil, a group pressuring the U.K. government to stop fossil fuel licensing and calling on cultural institutions to “join them in civil resistance,” according to a изјава.

McKechnie, who claims to be a fan of “Peach Trees in Blossom” since childhood, called it “immoral” for art institutions to stand by while the government allows for more fossil fuel production, saying galleries should close and directors should speak out.

Footage posted online by the group shows four police officers apparently реагујући to the incident, but the Courtauld Gallery did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Форбс.

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Just Stop Oil noted in a statement that Provence, the region of France depicted by Van Gogh in “Peach Trees in Blossom” is in danger of experiencing a severe drought this summer after low rainfall this year.

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On Wednesday, five members of Just Stop Oil were arrested at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, after spray-painting the walls and the floors of the gallery and gluing themselves to another painting. Last month, a man who threw cake on Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” at the Louvre Museum in Paris claimed he did it in the name of климатске промене as security escorted him out. “Think of the planet! . . . There are people who are destroying the planet—think about that! . . . That’s why I did it!” he shouted in French. In 2019, climate change protesters who are members of the British Extinction Rebellion group glued themselves to trains, bridges and even a fence outside the home of then Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

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