A video footage posted on social media shows environmental activists throw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s iconic sunflowers painting hanging in London’s National Gallery.
Video footage posted to Twitter today shows two youngsters throw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s iconic Sunflowers painting hanging in London’s National Gallery. The video shows two women throwing two tins of Heinz tomato soup over the painting, one of five versions on display in museums and galleries around the world.
About Vincent Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers painting
The famous series with sunflowers in a vase were initially painted as decoration for Paul Gaugin’s room in Arles. Van Gogh looked up to Gauguin, and decided to paint the series when Theo, his brother, finally persuaded Gauguin to join him in Arles. He did seven paintings in total, three of them are kept in different museums all over the world (the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the National Gallery in London, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam). Of the others, one belongs to a private collection and another was lost during World War II. There are also versions in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Sompo Japan Museum of Art in Tokyo.
Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall. pic.twitter.com/M8YP1LPTOU
— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 14, 2022
Still-life with flowers were a pretty common subject for painters at the time. At first, Van Gogh followed a more traditional approach in his still lifes but progressively moved to more extreme color contrasts. Sunflowers is an example of such an experiment, a study of varying hues of yellow and green.
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