discussion Activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers £76million Painting

[cockatoo]

Sometimes I wonder if these activists actually work for the oil companies because the amount of bad press they give to their cause is just 

Edited October 14, 2022 by cockatoo

[BloodLuster]

these kind of stunts scream 2001 like move the f*ck on

[Kimi]

of course one of them have pink hair 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

People in the west are complacent and self indulgent with their "activism". What does this have to do with activism? "Spreading awareness" is the dumbest excuse ever. This is literally vandalism and vandalism only. Radical white leftists have a pattern with gathering attention by destructive and meaningless ways in the name of so called "activism". These stupid ***es throw soup at classic art pieces, post black squares and rant online with their Canva infographics they share with their 3 followers instead of putting in MEANINGFUL WORK AND EFFORT in their activism and feel like 'they did their part'. Dumb people. Only explanation really. and OP i highly suggest you to take out the reasoning behind their 'activism' which was basically just vandalism. This is what these people want.

[A Bomb]

1 hour ago, Robert said:

I’m not sure I see the correlation. Yes, what’s happening in countries like Pakistan right now is horrific and should be on the front pages of every news site in the world but damaging art that is meaningful to people around the world won’t help either. If anything they should throw soup at the CEO of BP and Shell or politicians who vote against climate change. 

Firstly, I don’t understand the comfortability to think you are in any position to dictate what these activated groups should be doing. The back seat driving. It’s a very easy thing to critic. It’s a while another thing to actually organize, and execute political action. 
Secondly, I will state again that the majority of people do not care about this painting to have any sort of emotional response to it. Especially for an object they probably won’t ever see in person. Traveling is a luxury. One not awarded to the very large number of people making a few dollars, if they’re lucky, a day, since you want to talk about the whole world. Your position is of much privilege, and you should not be blind about that. Believe and feel what you want, but at the very least we have to understand why you feel that way. 
 

Edit: To further illustrate my point only 1/3 of Americans have a valid passport. The greatest economy in the world and the vast majority cannot travel. 

Edited October 14, 2022 by A Bomb

[XAMJ]

good, we need climate action now. raising awareness is the first step

[Jotham]

53 minutes ago, KatyPrismSpirit said:

People in the west are complacent and self indulgent with their "activism". What does this have to do with activism? "Spreading awareness" is the dumbest excuse ever. This is literally vandalism and vandalism only. Radical white leftists have a pattern with gathering attention by destructive and meaningless ways in the name of so called "activism". These stupid ***es throw soup at classic art pieces, post black squares and rant online with their Canva infographics they share with their 3 followers instead of putting in MEANINGFUL WORK AND EFFORT in their activism and feel like 'they did their part'. Dumb people. Only explanation really. and OP i highly suggest you to take out the reasoning behind their 'activism' which was basically just vandalism. This is what these people want.

Well said. 

 

Gathering attention shouldn't be an end of itself, this does nothing to support the climate activist movement. But ATRL loves putting Western leftists on a pedestal.

[The Next Day]

People getting triggered because we don't cherish every move made by climate activists No one will remember what they did tomorrow. They did it because it's easy, not because it's effective.

 

At least in Europe we're far beyond the point that you need people to pay attention to climate topics. Everyone knows the facts. You need to shock them into doing sth.The people sitting on streets blocking cars, they're the ones who actually disrupt everyday life. Greta said "how dare you" to a room full of politicians and everyone was shook. These two just wasted food and money on tickets. If anything, one of these people should stop this chicken game and just destroy a painting for real. That's how you show how grave the situation is.

Edited October 14, 2022 by The Next Day

[Raptus]

2 hours ago, A Bomb said:

The white on white crime, but in all seriousness I can guarantee that the large swaths of people do NOT care about this. Most people who believe in climate change already feel helpless about it, because at the end of the day it is on governments to do something. Hence, the act of setting oneself on fire also out of helplessness, which was ignored by the majority of media. I personally do not care about this million dollar painting compared to the fact that the first casualties of climate change are racial minorities. As that same demographic was the first and most affected by pollution. Hopefully this clears up my position on how silly the outrage over a painting is compared to idk Black, and brown human lives that will become increasingly affected by climate. But the painting!

There  are billions of people so yes  - Van Gogh’s Sunflowers is more important coz there's only one   Earth will be so much better with max 1 billion  people anyway 

[Edit0rz]

Morons. If anything this is going to get people against your cause. All these activist that do things like block traffic or destroy businesses will never achieve their goal. If you want to protest do it to the people you are trying to bring down...Government, corrupt people or in this case oil producers/unethical businesses. This is just lame and counter productive.

 

If they are so against oil use they would get their point across better picketing outside a Taylor Swift (personal jet) concert than destroying a painting in an art museum.

[Cloudy]

Now that user can come again and tell us about how groundbreaking and significant this gesture and the many others were

 

 

 

Edited October 14, 2022 by Cloudy

[Lost In Paradise]

pink hair, don't care (about actual activism, just about being the main character for a hot second on Twitter)

[Ash12345]

12 hours ago, A Bomb said:

Firstly, I don’t understand the comfortability to think you are in any position to dictate what these activated groups should be doing. The back seat driving. It’s a very easy thing to critic. It’s a while another thing to actually organize, and execute political action. 
Secondly, I will state again that the majority of people do not care about this painting to have any sort of emotional response to it. Especially for an object they probably won’t ever see in person. Traveling is a luxury. One not awarded to the very large number of people making a few dollars, if they’re lucky, a day, since you want to talk about the whole world. Your position is of much privilege, and you should not be blind about that. Believe and feel what you want, but at the very least we have to understand why you feel that way. 
 

Edit: To further illustrate my point only 1/3 of Americans have a valid passport. The greatest economy in the world and the vast majority cannot travel. 

TBH that's because a) America is huge and has a lot to see, a big range of climates, and little reason to leave for studies/work. b) a certain portion of the population that's poor af and can't afford to travel.

 

By comparison, 70% of Canadians have a valid passport, because most of us live within 100 miles of the US border, many of us do cross-border shopping, want to escape to the south for the winter, a lot of us are immigrants from other countries and go back to visit, and there's often better educational/work opportunities in the US, plus many of us work for US companies and travel to HQs there for business trips.

[Halcyon Days]

Ok but I remember going to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam and they had this painting on display. Did they move it to this other museum or are there several copies of the Sunflowers painting?? 

[HANZ94]

******* idiots

death to all of them 

[Daydream]

They’re scum. Do they not realise they’re actually hurting their cause?

[WeFoundWill]

this was a bit iconic  'erm SECURITY'

Edited October 15, 2022 by WeFoundWill

[Pop culture]

10 hours ago, Halcyon Days said:

Ok but I remember going to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam and they had this painting on display. Did they move it to this other museum or are there several copies of the Sunflowers painting?? 

Paintings are lent to different galleries all the time

[blueberries]

of course they look like that

[Uncatena]

On 10/14/2022 at 4:47 PM, cockatoo said:

Sometimes I wonder if these activists actually work for the oil companies because the amount of bad press they give to their cause is just 

aaaand you were spot on, apparently this group is sponsored by an oil heiress lmao

[ChrisTheLoner]

Good thing it was protected by glass 

 

Electric oil for those 2 clowns though 

[Jan]

On 10/14/2022 at 10:59 PM, sugarysunflower said:

“What is worth more, art or life?”

Art. Jail them!

[Smarticle]

11 hours ago, ChapelHooker said:

aaaand you were spot on, apparently this group is sponsored by an oil heiress lmao

but she recognizes the big oil is bad and donates to these climate action organizations

[gagacasanova]

[Ice Cream Skies]

Imagine how tired we all are of woke upper-class academic queers shoving their “activism” in our faces for clout.