The world’s most well-known painting was the focus of yet another presentation on Sunday. when activists from ecological group Riposte Alimentaire splashed Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with pumpkin soup. The demonstration at famous Paris museum the Louvre was an effort to accentuate food insecurity in France, the company stated. The painting, which is enclosed in a sheet of bulletproof glass, was not harmed in the occurrence.
According to a declaration launched by the Louvre, “Two activists from the ecological motion ‘Riposte Alimentaire’ sprayed pumpkin soup on the armoured glass securing the Mona Lisa, this Sunday, January 28, 2024, around 10 am (4 am ET). The Louvre’s security personnel instantly stepped in … The museum will lodge a problem.”
This image grab drawn from AFPTV video footage reveals 2 ecological activists from the cumulative called “Riposte Alimentaire” (Food Retaliation) gesturing as they stand in front of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Vinci’sMona Lisa” (La Joconde) painting after tossing soup at the art work, at the Louvre museum in Paris, on January 28, 2024.
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In security video from the action, one can see 2 females toss the liquid onto the well-shielded 16th-century painting, as the crowd in the Salle des Etats display screen location gasps. The duo duck below a barrier and stand next to the painting, as one reveals a tee shirt with “Riposte Alimentaire” composed throughout her chest.
“What is more crucial? Art or the right to have a healthy and sustainable food system?” the New York City Times equates the ladies as stating in French.
“Our farming system is ill. Our farmers are passing away at work,” the BBC prices quote them as stating.
This image grab drawn from AFPTV video reveals Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” (La Joconde) painting splashed in soup after 2 ecological activists from the cumulative called “Riposte Alimentaire” (Food Retaliation) tossed food at the art work, at the Louvre museum in Paris, on January 28, 2024.
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Via X (previously Twitter), Riposte Alimentaire– which, in English, can be checked out as “Food Counterattack”–took credit for the action, and composed that “Sasha (24) and Marie-Juliette (63) require the facility of Sustainable Food Social Security.”
“In France, one in 3 individuals avoid meals due to absence of ways. At the exact same time, 20% of the food produced is discarded,” the group stated in a subsequent tweet
The group is asking that “food be contributed to the social security safeguard and each local be offered a card topped up with 150 euros ($162) a month to purchase ‘democratically chosen’ pre-approved items,” Time reportsThis proposition to alter French social assistance comes as farmers in the nation’s farming locations block roadways as a demonstration versus governmental policies and increasing fuel rates.
As the ladies were led away by Louvre security, staffers tried to conceal the tinker black, fabric screens, U.S.A. Today noteswhile other employees hustled to leave the space. It resumed to visitors later on that day.
This isn’t the very first attack on the Mona Lisa, a painting that was notoriously (albeit fictionally) damaged in Rian Johnson movie Glass Onion A previous Louvre staff member took the painting in 1911 and kept it concealed for about 2 years. In 1956, it dealt with a wave of defacements: razor blade, acid, and a tossed rock, The Week reportsThat’s when it got the glass covering that protected it from future events, consisting of a tossed mug in 2009 and a pastry smear in 2022
Concerning this newest attack, French Minister for Culture Rachida Dati was company. “The Mona Lisa, like our heritage, comes from future generations,” she composed on X“No cause can validate it being targeted!”