2024-01-28 16:38:53
Published
Jan. 28, 2024
Updated
Jan. 28, 2024, 12:10 p.m. ET
It’s enough to wipe the smile off her face.
A pair of climate-change activists hurled pumpkin soup at the Mona Lisa on Sunday at the Louvre Museum in Paris as onlookers gasped, shocking new video shows.
“What is more important?” the crazed activists shouted in French. “Art or the right to have a healthy and sustainable food system?”
The two nuts are members of the activist group called “Riposte Alimetaire,” or Food Response, which issued a statement saying the stunt was meant to highlight the need to protect the environment.
Protesters splattered the glass protecting the Mona Lisa with soup. AP
“Two activists from the environmental movement ‘Riposte Alimentaire’ sprayed pumpkin soup on the armoured glass protecting the Mona Lisa, this Sunday, January 28, 2024, around 10 am,” the museum said in a statement, according to CNN. “The Louvre’s security staff immediately intervened.”
Officials at the museum said they were filing a complaint against the activists.
Fortunately, Leonardo Da Vinci’s legendary 16th-century masterpiece was unharmed, thanks to safety glass installed in front of the famed painting at the museum.
The protesters threw the food product on the masterpiece in order to raise awareness about food instability. AP
It wasn’t the first time protesters targeted the Mona Lisa and her legendary smile.
In 2022 a self-proclaimed eco-warrior wearing a wig and lipstick tried to break through the protective glass and then threw a cake at the painting in a bizarre incident.
“Think of the Earth,” the man shouted. “There are people who are destroying the Earth. Think about it, artists tell you, think of the Earth. That’s why I did this.”
This protest is one of many acts defacing artworks to raise awareness about world issues. AP
In 2009, a woman threw a ceramic cup at the painting, CNN reported.
Da Vinci’s masterpiece wasn’t the only target of activists — later in 2022, protesters hurled Heinz tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery in London.
The two vandals, identified as Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, were arrested.
With Post wires
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