The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon announced on Saturday the filing of a complaint after the spraying of a glass canvas of Monet by two activists from
“Food Riposte”
, an environmental movement which had already claimed similar action against the Mona Lisa.
“This Saturday, February 10 at 3:30 p.m., Claude Monet’s painting, Spring, was the subject of an act of vandalism
,” writes the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon in a press release.
The 1872 canvas was
“glazed”
, specifies the museum, indicating however that a
“condition report of the painting will be carried out and followed by a restoration”
.
“The museum will file a complaint for an act of vandalism
,” adds the press release, which specifies that the two activists were arrested.
According to a press release from Riposte Alimentaire, two activists threw soup on the table while chanting, according to a video broadcast by Riposte Alimentaire:
“This spring will be the only one left if we do not react.
What will our future artists paint?
What will we dream of if there is no more spring?
.
Soup on the Mona Lisa
This collective has already claimed responsibility for the action carried out at the end of January at the Parisian Louvre museum where two activists had doused
the Mona Lisa
with soup , protected by armored glass and which therefore suffered no damage.
These two activists, arrested, will have to pay a citizen contribution to a victim assistance association, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
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Food Response presents itself as a
“French civil resistance campaign which aims to bring about a radical change in society on a climatic and social level”
.
“We love art
,” assures the movement,
“but our future artists will have nothing more to paint on a burned planet
. ”
In a message broadcast on X, the environmentalist mayor of Lyon said he
“regretted the action”
.
“But in the face of the climate emergency, anxiety is legitimate.
We are responding with resolute action
,” he added.