A climate change activist defaced Claude Monet’s painting “Poppies” at the Orsay Museum in Paris. TV channel reported this BFMTV.
According to journalists, on the morning of June 1, the girl came to the exhibition hall of the museum with a poster depicting the “nightmare” version of the painting in question in red. As a result, she managed to paste the poster onto the artwork.
The activist managed to take off his jacket and pose next to the Monet painting wearing a T-shirt that read “+4 degrees is hell” before he was detained by law enforcement. Moreover, the girl stuck one of her hands on the wall next to the picture frame, but this did not prevent law enforcement from detaining her.
During the demonstration, the activist said that due to climate change, people will soon be amazed by ugly sights like those depicted in his poster. According to him, in 2100 the south of Europe will be no different from the Sahara Desert.
Members of the Letzte Generation (“Last Generation”), a radical movement campaigning against climate change, on 18 May influence He went to the airport in Munich, Germany and organized a protest there. The airport management had to temporarily close the airport because activists glued themselves to the runway.
Environmental activists in Poland’s capital earlier soaked Painted monument to the Warsaw mermaid.