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Activists Throw Soup at Monet Painting

The campaign group behind throwing soup on the Mona Lisa painting in Louvre Museum in France has repeated the act with a Monet painting in a Lyon museum.

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Protestors threw soup at a painting by Monet at The Musee des Beaux-Arts Lyon. This was the most recent action taken by the same campaign organization that staged a similar prank with the Mona Lisa last month.

The 1872 picture was shielded by glass, but the museum stated that it would undergo a thorough examination and repair.

The museum said it would file a complaint for vandalism, adding that two activists were arrested. Riposte Alimentaire (“Food counterattack”) claimed the attack in a posting on X, with a woman identifying herself as 20-year-old Ilona, saying, “We have to act now before it is too late.”

The same group, which calls for a sustainable supply of healthy food for all, also claimed January’s soup attack on the Louvre museum’s Mona Lisa painting, which was also behind glass.

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The two activists who attacked Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic work were condemned by a Paris court to carry out volunteer work for a charity association.

Riposte Alimentaire calls itself a “French civil resistance movement which aims to spur a radical societal change for the environment and society”. “We love art,” the movement says, “but future artists will have nothing to paint on a burning planet.”

It wasn’t the first time ecologists and activists had targeted a Monet painting.

In October 2022, protesters from the German branch of Last Generation flung mash at “Les Meules” (The Haystacks) in a museum in Potsdam. It too was protected by glass.

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