Environmental activists from have thrown tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers painting hanging in London’s National Gallery.
Video footage posted to Twitter today showed two Just Stop Oil protesters also glueing themselves to the gallery wall below the painting.
One of the demonstrators told The Guardian: ‘What is worth more, art of life?
‘Is it worth more than food, worth more than justice?
‘Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?
‘The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis. Fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold hungry families.
‘They can’t even afford to heat a tin of soup,’ they added, waving a can of Heinz tomato soup.
Additional footage showed a security guard usher gallery-goers eargerly filming the incident on their phones out of the room.
Just Stop Oil tweeted: ‘It’s time to step up and stand up for what’s right.’
The 1889 version of Sunflowers, that is protected by a sheet of glass, is among the most famous paintings by Van Gogh.
Just Stop Oil is a coalition of groups lobbying the government to end all new oil and gas licensing and production.
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They also glued themselves to the wall.
