Paris. An activist was arrested yesterday for pasting an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Orsay Museum in Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source said.
In a video published on the social network poppies, by Claude Monet, French impressionist painter.
This nightmare image is what awaits us if no alternative is put in place
says the activist in the video, referring to the posted poster.
Monet’s painting, completed in 1873 and showing people with parasols strolling through a field of poppies, was not protected by glass.
The Orsay Museum did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment on the status of the work after the incident.
Food Response claimed responsibility for several attacks on works of art in an attempt to focus attention on the climate crisis.
These include attacks on Mona Lisa from the Louvre and another painting by Monet, Primavera, at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, in February. Last month, activists from the group posted leaflets around Freedom guiding the people, Eugène Delacroix in the Louvre.
In April, two of its members were arrested at the Orsay Museum on suspicion that they were preparing an action.