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Oil protesters throw soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting

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Apparently tomato soup cans have been hurled over a Van Gogh painting of sunflowers at the National Gallery in London by environmental protestors. Two persons were captured on camera opening tins, throwing the contents onto the artwork, and then sticking their hands to the wall while wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts.
 
Two people, according to the Metropolitan Police, have been detained. The picture was declared to be undamaged by the gallery because it was protected by glass. According to a statement from the Trafalgar Square location: “This morning at little after 11 a.m., two individuals entered Room 43 of the National Gallery.

“The two appeared to have applied wall glue to the area next to Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888). Additionally, they daubed the artwork with a red material that appeared to be tomato soup.

“The room was cleared of visitors and police were called. Officers are now on the scene.

“There is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed.

“Two people have been arrested.”

Officers were on the scene at the National Gallery this morning after two Just Stop Oil protestors threw something over a picture and then fastened themselves to a wall, according to the Metropolitan Police.

“Both have been detained on suspicion of aggravated trespass and criminal mischief. Currently, officers are de-bonding them.

Videos of the event on Friday captured a protester yelling, “What is worth more? Or life, is it? Is it more valuable than food? More valuable than the law? Are the protection of our planet and its inhabitants more important to you than the preservation of a painting?

Additionally, she made mention of the rising cost of living and the “millions of hungry, chilly families” who “can’t even afford to heat a can of soup.”

Van Gogh painted seven sunflower-themed pieces between 1888 and 1889, five of which are currently on exhibit in galleries and museums around the globe. They were made by the artist to adorn his home in Arles, France, before his friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin paid him a visit.

The sunflower paintings are “among Van Gogh’s most recognisable and best-loved masterpieces,” according to the exhibition.

Three months prior, individuals from the same group covered John Constable’s The Hay Wain in the same gallery with paper using tape.

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Picasso’s Stolen portrait, Dora Maar found after 20 years

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Dora Maar, the stolen Picasso painting has been found out by A Dutchman known as the “Indiana Jones of the art world”. This painting worth 25 million euros ($28.3 million) had been stolen from a Saudi shaikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999.

Arthur Brand says that this portrait was there at the Dutch criminal underworld after it had been stolen. Brand claimed that the painting was handed back to an insurance company. The ‘Portrait of Dora Maarwhich’ was first painted in 1938, and it is also known as Buste de Femme (Dora Maar).

Dora Maar was the lover and muse of the great artist Pablo Picasso, for seven years. It is believed that Picasso had kept this portrait hung in his room until his death.

Arthur Brand had found this painting of the most influential mistresses of Pablo Picasso after a four-year investigation into the burglary on the luxury yacht Coral Island.

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Have a glimpse at These Ancient European Artists

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time.

Check out some of his famous paintings:

  • Bacchus
  • Mona lisa
  • Salvator Mundi
  • The Last Supper
  • The Virgin and Child with St. Anne

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. A number of Michelangelo’s works of painting, sculpture and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.

  • Angel
  • Delphic Sibyl
  • Pieta
  • The Creation of Adam
  • The Last Judgment

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.

  • Family of Saltimbanques
  • Guernica
  • Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
  • Portrait of Gertrude Stein
  • The Old Guitarist

Filippino Lippi

Filippino Lippi was an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance. He was born in Prato, Tuscany, the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and Lucrezia Buti. His major works are: The Coronation of the Virgin, Madonna with Child, St Anthony of Padua and a Friar, Tobias and the Angel etc.

  • Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard
  • Madonna with Child and Saints
  • Portrait of a Youth
  • Portrait of an Old Man
  • Tobias and the Angel

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