Climate Activist targets the “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
January 9, 2023
In the Hague, the Netherlands climate activists targeted the famous Masterpiece of Vermeer known as “Girl with a Pearl Earring” on Thursday but luckily there’s no damage from this publicity stunt. One of the climate activists, a man, attempted to glue his head to the glass-proof painting. And another of the activists, a man, has also stuck his hand to the panel of the painting. From the museum, they said that the investigation of the painting by the conservators was thankful that the masterpiece wasn’t damaged.
One of the men, an activist wearing a shirt “Just Stop Oil” shouts, asking “How do you feel when you see something beautiful and priceless being destroyed before your eyes? Do you feel outraged? Good. That is the feeling when you see the planet being destroyed before our very eyes.”
Then he went on about how the painting is being protected by the glass, one of the museum shouts and showing their disapproval of this stunt. Police arrested three people who were involved in this stunt, for “public violence against property”. But this isn’t the first time that these climate activists have targeted a painting, some other climate activists have thrown mashed potatoes at another painting made by Claude Monet in a German museum throwing the soup on the “Sunflowers” painting in a national gallery, the painting was also not damaged by the mashed potato soup.