An activist was arrested on Saturday for pasting a sticker on a painting by the famous impressionist painter Monet at the Orsay Museum in Paris. The action was intended to draw attention to global warming, a police source said.
In a video published on the social network Coquelicots (Poppies) by the French painter.
“This nightmarish image is what awaits us if no alternative is put in place,” the activist says in the video, referring to the posted poster.
The Riposte Alimentaire member posed after covering the Claude Monet painting at the Orsay Museum with a red poster with an adhesive. (HANDOUT/AFP)
Monet’s painting, completed in 1873 and showing people with parasols strolling through a field of poppies, was not protected by glass.
“After being examined and treated by a restorer, the work was hung again,” the museum management told AFP, which announced its intention to file a lawsuit.
Moment when the activist pasted the poster on Monet’s painting. (ROBERTA FUMAGALLI/AFP)
Riposte Alimentaire has claimed responsibility for several attacks on works of art in an attempt to focus attention on the climate crisis.
These include soup attacks on Gioconda from the Louvre and another painting by Monet, Springat the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon in February.
Last month, activists from the group posted leaflets around Freedom guiding the peoplea painting by Eugène Delacroix in the Louvre.
In April, two of its members were arrested at the Orsay Museum, suspected of preparing an action.
