PARIS — Vincent van Gogh's "
Sunflowers" was
the latest famous artwork to be targeted by vandals on Friday, when
environmental activists at London's National Gallery doused it in tomato soup
to demand an end to fossil fuel production.
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Here are some other cases of artworks being attacked:
Custard pie for Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci's beloved
Mona Lisa had a custard pie
thrown in her face at the Louvre museum in Paris in May, but the artwork's
thick bulletproof case ensured she came to no harm.
Her 36-year-old attacker said he was taking aim at artists
who are not focusing enough on "the planet".
She has been behind glass since a Bolivian man threw a rock
at her in December 1956, damaging her left elbow.
In 2009, a woman threw an empty teacup at the painting,
which slightly scratched the case.
Banksy murals vandalized
Celebrated British street artist Banksy has had several of
his iconic murals vandalized around the world.
In August 2021, a piece featuring a rodent sipping a
cocktail in a sun lounger, part of his "Great British Spraycation"
series, was smeared in white paint shortly after he left it on a wall in
Suffolk.
A year earlier, a
Valentine's Day work showing a young girl
firing a slingshot of flowers was defaced after appearing on a building in
western England.
Ivan the Terrible ripped
In May 2018 a Russian builder attacked a work by 19-century
artist Ilya Repin of the 16th-century tsar known as Ivan the Terrible, ripping
it in three places.
The man used part of a security barrier at Moscow's
Tretyakov Gallery to break the glass covering the painting. He said the
painting, which depicts Russia's first tsar killing his son, was "a
lie".
He was sent to a penal colony for two and a half years.
Delacroix defaced
In February 2013, a woman defaced Delacroix's "Liberty
Leading the People", one of France's most iconic paintings, with a black
marker at a provincial satellite of the Louvre, in the northern French city of
Lens.
Her inscription, "AE911", was a reference to
conspiracy theories swirling around the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in
the United States.
She was given an eight-month suspended prison sentence.
Indelible ink on Rothko
In October 2012, a Polish artist scrawled his name and a
slogan advertising his own artistic manifesto in indelible ink on US artist
Mark Rothko's 1958 painting "Black On Maroon" in Britain's Tate
Modern gallery.
Conservation experts said it took nine months of microscopic
analysis to find a chemical solvent that could dissolve the ink, which had in
some areas soaked through to the back of the canvas.
The man was given a two-year jail term for the attack.
Red lipstick on Twombly canvas
In July 2007, a Cambodian artist was arrested after planting
a lipstick-infused kiss on a panel of
US artist Cy Twombly's triptych
"Phaedrus" in a contemporary art museum in the southern French town
of Avignon.
She was fined over the kiss mark on the pure white canvas
and ordered to pay for the restoration.
She defended it as "an act of love".
Monet bridge fisted
In October 2007, a group of drunken revelers broke into the
Musee d'Orsay museum in Paris during the night and attacked a work by impressionist
master Claude Monet.
One of them stuck a fist in "The Argenteuil bridge"
leaving a hole nearly four inches long.
Petrol on van der Helst
In June 2006, a known art vandal sprayed Bartholomeus van
der Helst's "Celebration of the Peace of Münster" in the Rijksmuseum
in Amsterdam with lighter fluid and attempted to set fire to it, but caused
only minor damage.
In 1990, the museum's best-known painting, Rembrandt's
"Nightwatch" (1642), was sprayed with hydrochloric acid but only the
varnish layer was damaged.
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