Protesters Daub Van Gogh Painting With Tomato Soup

[FatticusInch]

https://news.sky.com/story/just-stop-oil-protesters-throw-tomato-soup-over-van-goghs-sunflowers-masterpiece-12720183

Jeezus! I don’t know which I’m more mad at, these morons doing what they did or that the painting isn’t better protected anyway, begins a Perspex screen or similar in light of recent similar events?

Either way, it’s time for some proper jail sentences and/or harsher financial punishments.

[Untitled]

in general i support protest and civil disobedience but i will never ever understand the desire to destroy or harm something beautiful

[jno]

"arrested for criminal damage and aggravated trespass" sounds fair enough. But women would never have got the vote if it hadn't been for suffragettes damaging paintings and smashing windows.

[Mozz71]

Perhaps they were Warhol fans?

[FatticusInch]

jno
//"arrested for criminal damage and aggravated trespass" sounds fair enough. But women would never have got the vote if it hadn't been for suffragettes damaging paintings and smashing windows.//

Fair enough but is there any need to carry out such actions against world admired art?
If they want to emulate the suffragettes I’d rather they chose the next meeting at Haydock!

[Untitled]

i don't think the windows and the paintings won women the vote jno... i think world war 1 did

[jno]

it's been done before

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26491421

They went in for bombings as well

https://www.amazon.com/Suffragette-Bombers-Britains-Forgotten-Terrorists/dp/1783400641

But looking back on it, would the world have been a better place with paintings undamaged but women still denied the vote?

[jno]

that's what I was taught at school too, Untitled: because women so kindly took over men's jobs, before returning meekly to the home front when the men returned, they were adjudged fit to vote. In later years I've decided it was a lie. Had there been no sociopolitical agitation, the campaign for votes for women would never have got off the ground.

Even with the campaign, British women got the vote a full generation after some of their sisters abroad, who didn't need a war to make their point.

[Atheist]

The link says that the painting is protected by a pane of glass.

[naomi24]

Pathetic. They're protesting against the use of oil and so they attack an 'oil' painting? Idiots who need to educate themselves!

[Atheist]

Naomi, I suspect Vincent used paints based on linseed oil, not fossil fuel.

[Zacs-Master]

These people need shooting. I'd seriously be happy to be part of the firing squad.

[FatticusInch]

Atheist
//The link says that the painting is protected by a pane of glass//

That’s been updated then, for which I’m thankful.
No mention of it when the story broke.

[jno]

shooting for putting tomato soup on a pane of glass? surely they should at least be hauled across Trafalgar Square on a hurdle first and be cut open a bit?

[naomi24]

Atheist, got it in one.

[Untitled]

that's fair enough jno but i doubt it's the paintings that did it

i do have some sympathy for those who block roads or glue themselves to things but I find it very difficult to justify attacks on beautiful things

[Zacs-Master]

'shooting for putting tomato soup on a pane of glass?'

Erm....no.

[jno]

this one was a largely symbolic attack, Untitled; the painting itself was protected from damage (unlike the Rokeby Venus, which really was slashed). I'm not actually sure what the charge of criminal damage will consist of, but if it's gluing their hands to the wall then, er, the fabric of the nation will probably survive.

[Untitled]

ah… i thought the painting had actually been damaged

[Zacs-Master]

The only thing it's symbolic of is a yoooof with too much time on their hands and an ignorance of how the world works.

[LadyCG]

These gormless cretins belong behind bars. How utterly disgusting to deface a priceless work of art.