Legendary pop artist
New climate protest: activists cling to Warhol’s soups
Two women look at the 1962 pop art artwork ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ in San Francisco. At the Australian National Gallery in Canberra, two climate activists spray-painted blue paint on Andy Warhol’s famous ‘Campbell’s Soup’ screen prints and then glued themselves to them. (archive image)
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In Canberra, climate activists spray-painted pop artist Andy Warhol’s famous “Campbell’s Soup Cans” screenprints blue and then taped their hands to them. However, the work of art was not permanently damaged.
At the Australian National Gallery in Canberra, climate activists have caused a stir with a new protest: Two women spray-painted blue paint on pop artist Andy Warhol’s famous “Campbell’s Soup Cans” screenprints and then taped her hands to it. However, the works were protected with glass and remained undamaged. The Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies group posted videos of Wednesday’s action on Twitter. “Australia needs to do more, we cannot reduce carbon while continuing to authorize coal and gas,” the group wrote.
Climate protest against “crazy capitalism”
One of the activists said in a statement: “Andy Warhol portrayed consumption gone mad in this iconic series, and now we have capitalism gone mad.” The museum did not want to comment on the action and only emphasized that the police were involved. The affected screen prints were temporarily removed and cleaned before being put back in place, Australian broadcaster ABC reported.
Similar actions also in many European countries
Before the 27th World Climate Conference (COP27), which is currently taking place in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, similar protests had already taken place in many European countries and also in Germany. On Saturday, two climate activists glued themselves to the frames of two famous paintings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
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Mashed potatoes versus art
In October, three climate activists were arrested at the Mauritshuis art museum in the Netherlands after an attack on the world-famous painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (1665-1667) by Johannes Vermeer. Also in October, a man and a woman spilled mashed potatoes on Claude Monet’s painting “Grainstacks” (1890) at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam. Before that, tomato soup was thrown at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery.