Police arrest German climate protestors who threw mashed potatoes at Monet painting

Police person arrested 2 clime activists who threw mashed potatoes astatine a Claude Monet coating successful a depository successful Germany to protestation fossil substance production, a stunt which caused nary harm to the art.

The protestors connected Sunday targeted Monet's "Les Meules" astatine the Barberini Museum successful Potsdam, a metropolis connected the borderline of Berlin. The impressionist painting, which was enclosed successful protective glass, sold for $110.7 million at a 2019 auction.

The German clime radical Last Generation took recognition for the stunt. The radical posted video footage connected Twitter showing a antheral and a pistillate tossing mashed potatoes astatine the painting, kneeling successful beforehand of it and gluing their hands to the wall.

The incidental was the latest onslaught connected celebrated artwork carried retired by protesters calling for enactment connected clime change. Earlier this month, protesters from the run radical Just Stop Oil were arrested aft throwing herb soup connected Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" coating successful the National Gallery successful London.

"We are successful a clime catastrophe. And each you are acrophobic of is herb crockery oregon mashed potatoes connected a painting," the pistillate shouted successful German portion kneeling successful beforehand of Monet's painting. "This coating is not going to beryllium worthy thing if we person to combat implicit food."

These clime protests person received wide attraction online and varying reactions, with immoderate radical criticizing activists for conducting misguided stunts by attacking admired creation successful bid to summation attention.

The Last Generation wrote successful a connection connected Twitter: "We marque this #Monet the signifier and the nationalist the audience. If it takes a coating — with #MashedPotatoes oregon #TomatoSoup thrown astatine it — to marque nine retrieve that the fossil substance people is sidesplitting america all: Then we'll springiness you #MashedPotatoes connected a painting!"

The Monet coating volition beryllium connected show again by Wednesday, the depository said successful a statement.