They attack a Monet painting in Stockholm with red paint

New environmental protest in a museum. This time, the ‘victim’ has been the French painter Claude Monet, the scene the Stockholm National Museum and the protest, the health situation that is causing the loss of wetlands in Sweden.

The protagonists of this new vandalization of a work of art have been two members of the climate movement Aterstall Vatmarker (Restore Wetlands) they have stained with red paint The artist’s garden in Giverny.

“They want to draw attention to the fact that the climate crisis is also a health crisis and that heat-related illnesses are becoming a growing problem,” said movement spokesperson Roxy Farhat.

Farhat has emphasized that the painting is intact since it was protected by glass to which these two activists who have been detained by the Swedish police have also stuck.

He museum spokesman has expressed dismay before the fact and claimed cultural heritage “as a great symbolic value and it is unacceptable to attack it regardless of the purpose”.

Anger over the weather

Since mid-2022, climate activists have compromised much of museum security with indiscriminate attacks on works of art to protest climate change and to attract the attention of governments around the world.

Some of the paintings that were attacked last year were The Haystacks by Claude Monetat the Barberini Museum in Potsdam or Spring from Botticelli.Laocoon and his sons was also the result of this vandalism and they hung a banner that said “Neither gas nor coal”.

[Picasso, Van Gogh, ahora Monet: museos de todo el mundo en alerta por el vandalismo ‘climático’]

Also the Gioconda de Da Vinci suffered from climatic vandalism when a cake was thrown against the display case that protects it by a man in a costume and in a wheelchair. But the high point came in October 2022 when in less than 15 days massacre in koreaby Picasso, The sunflowersby Van Gogh, and the earlier one by Monet suffered from “climatic anger”.