Mashed potatoes were thrown at the work of the French painter Monet at a German museum this time, as protests appealing for the need to combat climate change aimed at famous paintings in Europe.
The activist who carried it out belongs to an environmental group that opposes coal-fired power generation.
At the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, eastern Germany, on the 23rd, two environmental activists threw mashed potatoes at French Impressionist painter Claude Monet's painting "Haystack".
After that, they sat in front of the work and said, "People are starving, freezing and dying. We are facing a climate catastrophe. This painting has no value."
The German government has indicated a policy to temporarily expand coal-fired power generation in response to the declining supply of natural gas from Russia, and the two are said to belong to an environmental group that opposes coal-fired power generation. That's it.
According to the museum, the work was safe because it was covered with glass, and the exhibition will be resumed soon.
In Europe this month, environmental activists poured tomato soup over Van Gogh's masterpiece "Sunflowers" at a museum in London.