A 10-year jail sentence is warranted

[Bucksnort]

Two years in prison

FABULOUS!!!!

 

[Bucktee]

Protesters Who Threw Soup on Van Gogh Painting Sentenced to Jail

Over 100 artists and art professionals defend two Just Stop Oil protestors as they are sentenced in court for throwing soup at a Van Gogh.

news.artnet.com

Yesterday, an open letter was published in the protesters’ defense, arguing that the demonstration was itself a legitimate work of art. In a letter published by Greenpeace, the authors claimed: “These activists should not receive custodial sentences for an act that connects entirely to the artistic canon.” They described the flung soup as “a Pollock-esque splatter across the mustard yellow, drooping blooms” and “a sight to behold.”

LOL, right...

Update: The sentencing has provoked a counter-protest by Just Stop Oil. Just hours after the news broke, three activists entered the recently opened “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” exhibition at the National Gallery and threw Heinz vegetable soup over two Sunflowers paintings, one of which is the same work that Plummer and Holland had previously targeted. The other is on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Jail them too, but for longer.

Climate activists will appreciate the sacrifice and we all appreciate the awareness they've brought.

Back to the real world we go.

 

[JuanGoodman]

the protesters also forgot that they would never get their hands on Heinz vegetable soup if it wasn't for oil and gas industry !

 

[Jubee]

Oh, yeah, Sunflowers was destroyed? No worries, it’s just a painting after all. Like, who cares about a little canvas with some oil on it? It's not like it's the Mona Lisa, the Statue of Liberty, or, I don’t know, the Great Wall of China. Those are just rocks and metal anyway, right? Imagine if we lost Shakespeare’s works—just a bunch of old paper! Or the Sistine Chapel—just some pigment on a ceiling. Honestly, we’re probably better off without these trivial cultural touchstones. It's not like they represent human achievement or anything. Lets get back to the cave man days!

See, covered by glass.
You good now? lol

 

[Jubee]

the protesters also forgot that they would never get their hands on Heinz vegetable soup if it wasn't for oil and gas industry !

Kinda like the world "leaders, politicians and business people" flying on private jets that spit out massive amounts of carbon, all to get in a circle jerk and plan on how we should live our lives.

 

[barnacler]

Oh, yeah, Sunflowers was destroyed? No worries, it’s just a painting after all. Like, who cares about a little canvas with some oil on it? It's not like it's the Mona Lisa, the Statue of Liberty, or, I don’t know, the Great Wall of China. Those are just rocks and metal anyway, right? Imagine if we lost Shakespeare’s works—just a bunch of old paper! Or the Sistine Chapel—just some pigment on a ceiling. Honestly, we’re probably better off without these trivial cultural touchstones. It's not like they represent human achievement or anything. Lets get back to the cave man days!

Brutally admirable post.

The "It's only .." crowd will NEVER say that when "it's only" THEM that got fucked in some fashion or other.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I would sentence the perps to the maximum incarceration and add that they can not use petroleum based transportation and petroleum made products for 5 years.

 

[roddermac]

I fail to see how throwing soup on a piece of Van Gogh's art is going to accomplish anything these protesters wanted.

They drew attention to themselves for being fucking idiots, not to climate change or to the assholes running the oil industry.

It's was painted in the 1800s. Seriously is this real. Are these people that fucked where they believe the way to take down big oil is to destroy a painting from 200 years ago.

 

[roddermac]

Climate activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers again at London gallery

Climate activists threw soup over Vincent van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" again at London’s National Gallery on Friday. The action by three Just Stop Oil protesters was taken after two British climate activists were sentenced for throwing tomato soup over van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in 2022, nearly...

ca.news.yahoo.com

Too bad the UK doesn’t have SuperMax jails.

They do. They use them for Facebook posters.

 

[Jubee]

the protesters also forgot that they would never get their hands on Heinz vegetable soup if it wasn't for oil and gas industry !

Ooooh a word, name game.

Heinz > John Kerry (wife Teresa Heinz, yes, that very Heinz) > pro climate change guy