Anti-oil environmentalists pour tomato soup on Van Gogh 'Sunflowers' painting

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A climate activist duo with the climate change group Just Stop Oil threw cans of tomato soup on a piece of artwork by Vincent van Gogh in a central London museum.

Handout photo issued by Just Stop Oil of two protesters who have thrown tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, Friday Oct. 14, 2022.

This is not Just Stop Oil's first public assault on Van Gogh — the revered painter is a common target of climate activists' attention.at a London gallery to protest the government’s climate policies.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Louis McKechnie, 21, and Emily Brocklebank, 24, glued themselves to Van Gogh’s 1889 painting,"Peach Trees in Blossom, which hangs at the Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House in London.

"A piece of art receives this protection and state concern. Whilst people’s in Ethiopia, Somalia, India, Pakistan, the USA, Australia who are suffering from climate change NOW get ignored and left," the group wrote."What’s more important? This painting? Or a future"?!Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.

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