Climate activist group Just Stop Oil have explained the reason behind their protest after throwing soup over a famous Van Gogh painting.
On Friday, October 14, two people from the group threw cans of tomato soup over the artist's Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery in London.
While a stunned audience looked on, they then proceeded to glue themselves to the wall below the painting, with one of the activists Phoebe Plummer declaring: "What is worth more, art or life?" It was the latest in a string of recent protests by the coalition group against fossil fuel licencing, with others including sit-down protests in the middle of the road and climbing over a bridge at Dartford Crossing in Kent.
Since the ordeal, which puzzled and enraged many people, 21-year-old Phoebe has explained the reasons behind the protest and what she hoped the outcome would be.In a video posted to Twitter, she claims that she and 20-year-old Anna Holland did "no damage to the painting whatsoever".
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