Mona Lisa: Protesters throw soup at da Vinci painting

flathead , 5 months ago

Cue the outrage and two minutes hate.

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

Given that the painting is protected by glass, I don't really mind this protest. But I do hate when people destroy historical pieces in protest or like some stupid tourists have done in places like Italy.

flathead , 5 months ago

Right but these are climate change activists, not stupid tourists. The internet is going to hate on them anyway. The Mona Lisa! Sacre bleu!

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

No, they were farming advocates. From the article:

The French capital has seen protests by farmers in recent days, calling for an end to rising fuel costs and for regulations to be simplified - on Friday they blocked key roads in and out of Paris.

And I was not indicating that protesters and dumb tourists destroying precious art are on the same level. But there are other ways to draw attention to crises than destroying historic artifacts.

I don't support that, regardless the cause.

flathead , 5 months ago

I stand corrected, thanks. I assumed they were climate activists, since all the previous soup throwing was about climate.

Do you know of any instances where climate protestors have destroyed historic artifacts?

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

Just to play devils advocate, I decided to try to see if there were many instances of artwork actually being damaged. I found this article documenting the many "attacks" on artwork by climate protesters.

It does an excellent job illustrating how unjustified the outrage is, documenting how the attacks don't damage the artwork.