Lyon, soup against Monet's Spring. No damage to painting

Environmentalist protests targeting paintings in museums continue in France as well, with two activists from the Riposte Alimentaire collective throwing soup on Claude Monet ’s Spring at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon on Saturday, February 10. “This spring will be the only one left if we don’t react. What will our future artists paint? What will we dream about if there is no more spring?” the activists said.

Riposte Alimentaire presents itself as a “French civil resistance campaign that aims to bring about a radical change in society on a climatic and social level.” “We love art,” the collective states, “but our future artists will have nothing left to paint on a burned planet.”

The painting by the father of Impressionism was not damaged because it was protected by glass; however, the frame will have to be restored and a new protective device installed. “The worst was avoided, which does not detract from the seriousness of the act,” stressed Nathalie Perrin Gilbert, deputy mayor of Lyon.

In a statement, the museum specified the same day that it would press charges for vandalism and that the activists had been arrested.

Last January, two other activists from the collective had thrown soup at the protective glass of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre.

Lyon, soup against Monet's Spring. No damage to painting

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