Two activists stuck their hands on the frames of “La Maja nude” and “La Maja dressed”, exhibited at the Prado Museum, in Madrid.
Le Monde With AFP
Monet, Van Gogh, Vermeer, and now Goya. Two environmental activists hand , Saturday November 5, on the framework of paintings by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, at the Prado museum in Madrid, in order to denounce the inaction of the authorities in the face of global warming, we learned from the Spanish police.
The two activists, who did not damage the tables but tagged ” + 1.5 ° C” on the wall between the two paintings, in reference to the objective of warming that the international community has set , were arrested and placed in police custody, according to the police.
In a video posted by extinction rebellion, ecological collective adept at civil disobedience, we see the two activists the hand each fixed on a table, in one of the museum rooms, before being taken care of by museum security officials.
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According to Rebellion extinction, the two paintings in question are the Maja nude and the dressed up, signed Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). This action is “a sign of protest” in the face of “the increase in global temperature, which will cause an unstable climate with serious consequences on the whole planet”, underlines the collective in a press release.
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This action follows several others of this type carried out by climate activists since October, which have targeted famous works of art in several European cities.
At the end of October, two militants of Last Generation had spread potato puree on the glass protecting the canvas of Claude Monet the grinders at the Barberini Museum, in Potsdam, Germany. Ecologists activists have also stuck on the glass protecting the girl to the pearl, by Johannes Vermeer, in a museum in the Netherlands and others before threw soup on the one that protected the sunflowers, by Vincent Van Gogh, at the National Gallery, London. More recently, Friday, activists projected soup to Rome on a Van Gogh table, the setting in the setting sun, also protected by a window.