{"id":267267,"date":"2026-05-24T22:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/sometimes-what-a-van-gogh-needs-is-a-splash-of-tomato-soup\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:01:50","slug":"sometimes-what-a-van-gogh-needs-is-a-splash-of-tomato-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/sometimes-what-a-van-gogh-needs-is-a-splash-of-tomato-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes What a Van Gogh Needs Is a Splash of Tomato Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><span class=\"photoview__desc-text\">Eco-activists from the Just Stop Oil movement vandalized Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;Sunflowers&#8221; painting at the National Gallery in London on October 14, 2022.<\/span><img src=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ef14359781b7dc02a768c7a94db76a82.png\"  \/><span class=\"article__news-services--label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"article__news-services--list\">\n<li class=\"article__news-services--item social-service\" title=\"Telegram\" data-name=\"telegram\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"article__news-services--item social-service\" title=\"X\" data-name=\"twitter\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ted  RallFrom The Washington Post: \u201cJust after 11 a.m. on Friday morning, two young climate protesters entered a room in the National Gallery in London containing one of Vincent van Gogh\u2019s most famous paintings: \u2018Sunflowers.\u2019 They opened two cans of Heinz tomato soup, flung them on the painting, then glued their hands to the wall.\u201dPhoebe Plummer of the Just Stop Oil movement, 21, shouted: \u201cWhat is worth more, art or life?\u201d She continued: \u201cAre you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet?\u201dIf you didn\u2019t follow this story, you can easily imagine the response of many liberals: this action was stupid. Vincent Van Gogh had nothing to do with global warming. It\u2019s counterproductive. It\u2019s going to turn off people against the environmental movement. Liberals, who claim to care deeply about climate change, similarly deplored the group\u2019s disruption of traffic and sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey sure know how to get attention. And while their passion is admirable, their tactics are repugnant,&#34; said Mother Jones magazine editor Michael Mechanic. \u201cAll you did was anger the very people you&#x27;re trying to appeal to,\u201d tweeted American comic book artist Jamal Igle. \u201cAttacking Van Gogh\u2019s Sunflowers\u2014one of the world\u2019s most loved paintings\u2014will not gain public support, which is what is needed for real change,\u201d said art historian Ruth Millington.<\/p>\n<p>It is largely forgotten that Van Gogh was a populist and a Marxist. Odds are, he would have approved of this attempt to raise awareness of the climate crisis.There was no damage to the painting, which was protected by a sheet of glass. The incident nevertheless reminded me of the discussion over the 2001 dynamiting of the giant Buddha statues at Bamian, Afghanistan, which prompted global outrage. The Taliban government, which had previously protected the statues, reversed course when a Swedish delegation along with UNESCO traveled to Afghanistan and offered money to buy and preserve the 1,400-year-old sandstone relics at a time that the country was reeling under the weight of Western sanctions. Meanwhile, requests for medical and food assistance for living, breathing flesh-and-blood human beings fell on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, an adviser to Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar explained: \u201c[Our] scholars told them that instead of spending money on statues, why didn\u2019t they help our children who are dying of malnutrition? They rejected that, saying, \u2018This money is only for statues.\u2019\u201d Incensed, the Taliban decided to blow up the Buddhas to express their outrage. \u201cIf money is going to statues while children are dying of malnutrition next door, then that makes it harmful, and we destroy it,\u201d Rahmatullah said.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t have detonated the charge to blow up those statues. I\u2019m too much of a history geek. But I saw Rahmatullah\u2019s point. Sometimes the world needs a slap across its face to force it to pay attention.<strong>My first reaction to the Just Stop Oil action was: what good is a painting that no one will be around to see in 50 years?<\/strong>Then\u2014and that\u2019s where I am now\u2014I thought, good for them. Radically mitigating climate change should be humanity\u2019s top priority. Some 69% of all animals on Earth died between 1970 and 2018. Since 1900, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish species have died 72 times faster than \u201cnormal.\u201d Droughts are severe. Storms are getting more violent. This isn\u2019t an emergency. It\u2019s THE emergency.But international organizations aren\u2019t doing anything, because the politicians who belong to them prioritize profits over the planet. Capitalism rules, so the politicians aren\u2019t doing anything. (Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030, as Biden promises, is so not going to happen that it\u2019s hardly worth mentioning). Citizens don\u2019t understand how awful the situation is, or they feel alone in their understanding, so they aren\u2019t doing anything.We aren\u2019t engaged in sustained protest. We aren\u2019t rioting. We aren\u2019t overthrowing our do-nothing governments. We aren\u2019t even voting against politicians who aren\u2019t doing anything. Here in the United States, only the Green Party cares about climate change \u2014 and their votes amount to a rounding error. And the media hardly ever talks about it.Truly, it\u2019s the ultimate madness. The house is on fire, flames all around, and we\u2019re not even calling 911, much less reaching for a bucket of water. We are all going to die, or if we\u2019re old our children will, yet we remain oblivious, passive, resigned, disconnected, alienated, and stupid \u2014 for no reason. 99.9% of humanity does not own energy stocks and we\u2019re all willing to die for the tiny minority who do.So what if the Just Stop Oil activists bum out art lovers? If your blood boils over what they did more than it does over what they\u2019re talking about, you\u2019re too dumb to be won over in the first place. Complacency kills; outrage fights complacency.Pardon the young people who kinda-sort-of desecrate Van Goghs. For they may or may not know what they\u2019re doing but they certainly know what\u2019s important. If we\u2019re all going to die for no good reason, some of us have the right to go out screaming.(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, co-hosts the left-vs-right DMZ America podcast with fellow cartoonist Scott Stantis. You can support Ted\u2019s hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on <u>Patreon<\/u>.)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20221018\/sometimes-what-a-van-gogh-needs-is-a-splash-of-tomato-soup-1102026290.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco-activists from the Just Stop Oil movement vandalized Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8220;Sunflowers&#8221; painting at the National Gallery in London on October 14, 2022. 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