Environmental Activists Glue Themselves to More Paintings In The UK – RisePEI

Environmental activists for Just Stop Oil glued themselves to Giampietrino’s The Final Supper (c. 1520) on Monday and John Constable’s The Hay Wain (1821) on Tuesday. The work reside on the Royal Academy of Arts and the Nationwide Gallery in London, respectively.
The actions observe comparable actions final week the place activists in the UK connected themselves to Van Gogh’s Peach Bushes in Blossom (1889), Horatio McCulloch’s My Coronary heart’s within the Highlands (1860), and J.M.W. Turner’s Tomson’s Aeolian Harp (1809).
Whereas the activists have sometimes solely connected themselves to the frames of the work, they took a special strategy with the The Hay Wain, a well-known panorama of Constable’s which depicts the English countryside. The activists lined the portray with a reimagined scene of a countryside filled with dying timber, planes, and an encroaching metropolis. Consequently, there was some very minor injury to the portray.
“The Hay Wain suffered minor injury to its body and there was additionally some disruption to the floor of the varnish on the portray, each of which have now been efficiently handled,” a spokesperson for the Nationwide Gallery mentioned in an interview with The Art Newspaper.
The portray has since been rehung.
Hannah Hunt, a 23-year-old psychology pupil from Brighton mentioned in a statement launched by Simply Cease Oil, “I’m right here as a result of our authorities plans to license 40 new UK oil and gasoline initiatives within the subsequent few years. This makes them complicit in pushing the world in the direction of an unlivable local weather and within the loss of life of billions of individuals within the coming a long time.”
She added that the actions in cultural establishments will solely finish when “the UK authorities makes a significant assertion that it’s going to finish new oil and gasoline licenses.