Defacing art isn’t “protest” it is vandalism. Though I agree with the message, I deplore vandalism.

@patrickstar686

6 ай бұрын

soup on glass is hardly vandalism

@ceeemm1901

6 ай бұрын

Teach me how to be virtuous like you, pls,pls,pls!

@quietlionwhp2609

6 ай бұрын

Got the attention of the people.

@fahadahaf

6 ай бұрын

And what kind of proper and virtuous protest have you done recently?

@thefierybrib

6 ай бұрын

It would have been a beyond outrageous act of vandalism was the Monna Lisa not protected. But it was, so absolutely no damage was done, hence it wasn't vandalism at all.

Stop giving them publicity

@j.erickson8571

6 ай бұрын

Exactly!. They know they will be on National TV ten minutes later. Throw them in prison for one month and no publicity.

@ceeemm1901

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, it takes up too much Reality TV space and I need to expand my intellect!

99 percent these type of people are young or retired . People who actively work and pay taxes don’t do such bs

You are rewarding and encouraging vandalism by giving their spokeswoman a platform on your channel.

@AlienChicken

6 ай бұрын

Thank goodness

@Vincent_Mayers

6 ай бұрын

Are you writing it under every video that covers this? 😅🎉

@Billy67

6 ай бұрын

To be fair Mona Lisa was smirking at them.

@JustaSpaceCowboy

6 ай бұрын

I'm not for what they did. However, the news is being unbiased by reporting both sides

@hawavideouploader

6 ай бұрын

They are presenting the news as it is. If you do not like this kind of news, then you should not have clicked the video anyways.

They are denouncing themselves but do not understand the implications of what they are doing. They are NOT whistleblowers they are vandals.

@breethurston9946

6 ай бұрын

I'm just glad they were caught doing it to frame a different group...

@user-yx4wx4oq4g

6 ай бұрын

its not vandelism, the painting is behind bulletproof glass lol

@leagueaddict8357

6 ай бұрын

It's about the principle, you wouldn't go out in public to a restaurant, and then start destroying the chairs bashing them into the wall even if they would be unbreakable.@@user-yx4wx4oq4g

This is insane whatever they're trying to say

@thefierybrib

6 ай бұрын

It would have been beyond crazy hadn't it been protected by the glass. But it was, so it was literally without any problematic consequences.

@lisilein2

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, how dare they waste soup on a sheet of glass. Now it's going to rain tomorrow.

1 in 3 French people go without eating a meal and they threw two things of soup at the Mona Lisa. Surely there are better ways to express and get their message across

@Buttercup697

6 ай бұрын

But it got your attention 😉

@Zatvornik

6 ай бұрын

So, by your calculations (1 and 3) there are 4 people in all of France, that go without eating a meal? Surely, we can fix that, do you have their addresses?

@patrickstar686

6 ай бұрын

"things of soup"

@humanist6256

6 ай бұрын

@@Zatvornik😂 well said

@fahadahaf

6 ай бұрын

ah yes, won't someone think of the poor 2 cups of soup. Surely that would've solved the problem and fed millions that are suffering

A good example of getting arrested for pointless, useless actions of vandalism

If you gonna keep covering these stories they will keep doing it.

@Vincent_Mayers

6 ай бұрын

😂

@ceeemm1901

6 ай бұрын

YAY!

Activists have the right to express their opinion. But when unhinged activists are using violence or vandalism in the thoughtless actions, they are totally destroying their cause. What most people retain from the thoughtless actions are the violence and the vandalism, not their cause!

@hawavideouploader

6 ай бұрын

Non-violent protest never works. Art has been and is being used by rich people to launder money. They did not hurt anyone physically.

@JeikuAnimeReview

6 ай бұрын

​@@hawavideouploader ??? Non-violent protests work a lot; dare I say too often, companies bend the new at any small whim. Violent protests don't work because the violence covers your message and just make people like myself hate them!

@KiraNt4

6 ай бұрын

@@JeikuAnimeReview You are absolutely right!

@meerkats9317

6 ай бұрын

You could have gone on a hunger strike for sustainable food in front of the parliament. Instead you thought vandalism was the right way to go. 👏👏👏

@lisilein2

6 ай бұрын

It's just soup. It's going to take less than half an hour to wipe it off the glass

Why not create a legitimate media campaign instead of damaging, attention-seeking, stunts? Mobilising people works better than offending them

@israelgulley9104

6 ай бұрын

1. They didn’t actually damage the painting 2. Would you be talking about them otherwise I don’t think so

@ZheyuanLi

6 ай бұрын

they did perfect job showing how dumb this movement is. well done

@israelgulley9104

6 ай бұрын

@@ZheyuanLi they don’t care if you dislike them or if you think the movement is dumb, there is a lot of research that’s how these type of tactics work.

@mmchelly8728

6 ай бұрын

Você está certíssimo.

@peepodhumperdink4456

6 ай бұрын

@@ZheyuanLi Zero noticeable policy changes, loads of people bashing them online and spending time in jail/fines for their organizations. They've failed

Their only message is “We like to annoy everyone”.

Many artworks in museums are currently unprotected. Ramping up security and re-framing everything will ramp up ticket prices. Large format pieces are impossible to protect anyway. Much of the art shown is loaned from private collections that can simply recall it. The main costs for the museum are the employees, mostly security guards, and the insurance premiums, if both of these costs go up, it hits hard. Even large, world famous museums only have the money to re-frame or restore a few pieces per year, but they want to rotate through a large volume of pieces to show a wider spectrum. So we get to see less art at higher ticket prices.

Put them 6 years in prison..

@backwoods1732

6 ай бұрын

Keep 'm there until they are able to produce a replica of the Mona Lisa that is close enough to the original ;)

Even if your cause is just, committing a crime makes you a criminal.

@darinherrick9224

6 ай бұрын

Careful with that one. Peaceful protest, freedom of expression, religion, are a crime in many parts of the world. So are unauthorized gatherings, not joining the military, educating women, employing someone not registered with a political party... You can't hide behind "illegal" when justice is illegal.

If their intention was to tell the world how self righteous they are then their actions were right on point. If they wanted to be the focus of the world's derision, they were right on point.

Art is important Health food and farmers prosperity are important One does not denny or prevent other It is not a zero sum game

Wasting more food

Who exactly do they think will be persuaded to support their movement when they at the same time go out of their way to vandalise property and piss everybody off and that is including all of those people that they need to be backing them.

What are they protesting? So confused.

@toditron

6 ай бұрын

Soup. They are infuriated with soup.

They just complain but don't really do anything to solve anything

@leagueaddict8357

6 ай бұрын

Yup, they fear food scarcity then they should just make farms instead of committing crimes.

If you don't charge people for doing it, they keep doing it. Attempting to destroy historical art used to mean 10+ years in jail.

This is dumb, i hate it. Gallery-grade glass, the kind that is virtually invisible under the right lighting conditions, is super thin and fragile, it protects against UV and dust and spittle. Strong glass that withstands actual force is not invisible. I want to appreciate art without having to go through airport-like security and without having my view diminished by strong glass. In the attack on Vincent van Gogh they almost broke the glass by touching it with the metal can, and damaged a 200 year old original wooden frame.

@winterlinde5395

6 ай бұрын

So you didn’t get the message. What would help you (and so many others) to get it?

@kurtilein3

6 ай бұрын

@@winterlinde5395 my sympathy for their cause evaporated and cannot be restored unless they stop attacking art for at least a few years. The damage cannot be undone easily or quickly.

@winterlinde5395

6 ай бұрын

@@kurtilein3 They didn’t do any damage. Why would you let random people who you think are doing dumb stuff put you off from caring about an issue that you rate important?

@Kim-J312

6 ай бұрын

Wasting food to protest for better prices for the farmers . How wasteful that could have been someone's lunch!!!!

@kurtilein3

6 ай бұрын

@@winterlinde5395 They want to make me decide if i like art or if i care about the cause. So i choose that i like art and that i do not care about their issue. They disrespect art so screw them. It is my decision what i do or do not support, and i decide that their mistake has consequences. Not all attention is positive. They need to learn it the hard way, i will not forgive them anytime soon.

While I might have agreed with their concerns, this kind of "protest" makes me want to take the opposite position

@PjotrII

6 ай бұрын

Exactly, the more we "listen" to vandalism, hooliganism, extremism, the more they get empowered to continue.

There are a number of scientific and technological innovations which have allowed for rapid growth in crop productivity, particularly in the second half of the 20th century. None of these had a more dramatic impact than the ability to produce synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. In fact, it’s estimated that nitrogen fertilizer now supports approximately half of the global population. In other words, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch - the pioneers of this technological breakthrough - are estimated to have enabled the lives of several billion people, who otherwise would have died prematurely, or never been born at all

A terrible event that will cause great harm to a good cause. The people who will be paying to protect more and more art, or not expose it to the public at all, are the ones with type of mind, the money and connections to help most. I hope their movement shuns these individual fools.

So every body who has an agenda can vandalize the Mona Liza? Monday: Save the squirrels, Tuesday: Group for more comfortable shoes, Wednesday: People against Pigeon Shooting, Thursday: Fashion for the poor, Friday: Bann coffee, Saturday: Genocide of the splattered green bugs in Provence, Sunday: For lowered Netflix prices ……

@kphaxx

6 ай бұрын

Not having alternative milk at your cafe is discrimination

Quit wasting food !! She threw soup that could have fed someone lunch !!!

The message is "i am an attention seeker"

Ridiculous!! Art is essential. No need to compare it to other basic human needs! They should spend some time in prison!!

That wasn't activists, activists won't destroying, activists is stand up for opinions. That's threat definitely criminals

@fahadahaf

6 ай бұрын

What did they destroy? The painting is behind a huge piece of glass

@JeikuAnimeReview

6 ай бұрын

​@@fahadahaf "Attempted" to destroy, that better?

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Yes they can at least clean up the mess they made

Why is DW giving them a platform?

It's worth noting that there can be a fine line between an activist and a terrorist.

Some people dont have food or have ever seen the mona lisa, how dare you

@ceeemm1901

6 ай бұрын

Ummmmm, your point being?

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

I think the point is that they are very disrespectful towards art, and are not aware of the concept of food waste, and maybe before they point fingers, concentrate to find ways to eliminate a problem without actually contributing to one

@ceeemm1901

6 ай бұрын

@@user-iq3cy9hg9x So are you saying that these are the people responsible for global food waste? I knew we'd find them one day!

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Yes we should all pay more attention, to planning meals if that make sense, I personally feel it will be of great help to begin with, unfortunately I'm not smart enough to work out the whole spectrum, but sure there is intelligence for that out there

@ceeemm1901

6 ай бұрын

@@user-iq3cy9hg9x Planning meals for Proles means the closest 'drive through' just to shut the kids up because they hold the parents to ransom because of advertising and marketing. Who said Capitalism wasn't great?????

Message is - whatever tantrum they throw - as long as it involves Mona Lisa, all “big brains” in the media will cover it...

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

On this note, anybody figured out yet, what is the fascinating mystery about Mona Lisa is all about

Vandals. There, fixed the description of them for you.

The thing is covered by glass, the real question is why do you cover their message, and the result is we get strip searched going into the museum. If you do not think the average French doesn't get enough calories, Somalia, stand in a small village there and say that. Those people and the ones backing them should be put on a no go list.

At this rate they should set up a soup kitchen at the louvre, get hungry people to stand in front of priceless masterpieces and enjoy the free food.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

And this will solve what exactly

@eedragonr

6 ай бұрын

Are you coming with the soup kitchen? Is this the Great Depression of '29 -' 33? It was even better then they threw the milk in the river to raise the price of it.

What message? That they are clowns and don't ever listen to their nonsense.

It's just a matter of time before some great work of art is damaged, either because it is not behind a protective shield or because the liquid that these vandals use seeps behind the shield or because the vandals employ some new attack which penetrates to the artwork. This risk will persist until countries like France take this seriously and impose severe sentences.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

You think anyone would actually listen, it's suppose to be common sense that such practices is disrespectful with a pinch of no appreciation of what others value.

Great, now all good museums will need armoured glass on their artworks and airport style security because someone has a random grievance.

This is crazy, the organizer does not know what she is talking about, she has to stop and come up with some reasons.

These supposed activists, repell me. Now, I won't listen to them. I don't respect them

@ceeemm1901

6 ай бұрын

Explain what unsupposed activist does?

@JeikuAnimeReview

6 ай бұрын

​@@ceeemm1901 What?? Speak English.

@ceeemm1901

6 ай бұрын

@@JeikuAnimeReview Engrush not my language of firstness, solly.....

So why is da Vinci's painting in France? Shouldn't it be returned to its rightful owner (Italians), especially when French do not seem to respect it?

France should have minimum 20 years jail term for these lazy vandals

Very good way to get media attention,, 👍‍‍🌟👍‍‍

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Is it really nesscasary though

I know French people hate "Mona Lisa".

I believe there is a broad line between activism and lunacy.

@PjotrII

6 ай бұрын

broad? extreme activism is always lunacy!

Security is 1st rate 😂

@erika4925

6 ай бұрын

Right? At the Met museum in NYC they would’ve been tackled before they made it fully into the “secured area” around the painting

All activist have the right to say what they want to say, the same apply to other laws that Activist are required to follow, including vandalism law

This makes no sense. The message I see from this behavior is “Waste food because people don’t have enough of it.” 🤷‍♀️

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

I'll give them them benefit of doubt their intentions might be pure as absurd as it may sound, but yeah

Everyone, including the reporter, is trying to figure out how throwing soup at Mona Lisa is related or gonna help the situation, failing to realize they are discussing it on TV. I have no idea what's going on there, so, I have no opinion about the ''vandalism'', since it's behind protective glass, but they seem to have achieved the attention they were seeking. I hope this demystifies it for the reporter. 😂 One last thing, though, if the painting itself was indeed damaged, I'd be mad, too. But that is not the case.

Bring back insane asylums with passed walls

You should really stop reporting on this This is EXACTLY what they want Why else would they target something so popular and unrelated to their "cause"

"The Mona Pollock"

So she says one and three people in France go without food well I dare you just threw away enough food on that pan to feed at least 2 to 4 people. So how are you exactly are you helping? Only reason they did this is so people talk about them. They knew there would be no danger to the painting because of the glass. It’s just foolishness levels.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

And yet here we are all talking about it

Theu should have given that food to ppl in need instead of throwing it to the wall

Throwing soup because 1 in 3 people are skipping meals 🤔🤔

1:58 agreed. It’s a shame nobody asked anyone else what they thought about the active farmers strike in Europe/paris or food insecurity. Sabine Hossenfelder just did a video explaining the miscalculation in climate science-hint: there might not be enough food and water for everyone after 2100.

@123thesophster

6 ай бұрын

Unless a ban is put in place for animal agriculture. The planet will be a lot better off too. The land used for grazing and growing feed will be repurposed, and even re-wilded because there will be more than enough land available. But of course, blood mouths insist on dead rotting corpses to eat, so we are totally screwed.

@phpn99

6 ай бұрын

Nothing to do with art

@eedragonr

6 ай бұрын

Oh let's count who will still be alive then

@leagueaddict8357

6 ай бұрын

There will be enough food for everyone, look at India they aren't going hungry because there is enough food, and we can produce more food if needed.

These are attention hogs. If they were actually activists and actually cared about starving people, they'd donate the soup instead of wasting it.

Europe is tired of that kind of art

Children. Having a tantrum over something they want but aren't getting. If they want to make a mature point, they need to get involved in politics. Or perhaps French agriculture or food distribution .

*You don't destroy something you can't make* Go attack a cooperation or something but not this!

@monanch

6 ай бұрын

😅

Mona Lisa: 😂please bring mushroom soup next week ( smirk) 😅

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

I wanted to like this but my conscience won't allow me

Find the solutions and address people with power, dont destroy (art).

AI developers are more important and not farmers. We won't have many people in the future, but robots.

You need to use force to make your point, like the revolutionaries of 1789. Vandalism is not going to achieve anything. If you want sustainable food, sabotage polluting farms.

I would disagree with the vandalism as a way of protest. 😐 For there are better ways of expression of rights.

I don't blame them for trying to get a message out that is not good thing that happing to them. However attacking art is so fen wrong not acceptable.

Don't worry about farmers they are largely irrelevant. Eliets will have access to real food everyone else will order on line and delivered to your door..that's if you have a door and you have credits, if not down to the food bank. GM food will be grown at selected places on the planet to feed the serfs Ukraine,Nafa valley etc. Of course the worlds population must be reduced to around 6 billion. A modern feudal system...?

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Population reduced? How would you like to go a out this

They're children throwing a tantrum.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

No it was adults definitely

Can you imagine this being done in China or Russia. These ridiculous people would disappear in those countries. They talk outrageous rubbish.

If food demand continues to grow as projected, by 2050 we would need 120% more water, 42% more cropland, lose 14% more forest, and produce 77% more GHG emissions

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

I hope you have a proposal for accomplishing this

Is the Louvre demonstrating that they have put in place a reasonable art protection barrier rather than asking staff to warn each and every tourist? In Japanese art museums, we are strictly prohibited to drink anything inside the exhibition rooms . There might be a high risk of adversely affecting humidity management to protect artworks. I have received a warning for accidentally hy drating myself when I was thirsty in the summer.

@dennischiu272

6 ай бұрын

Eating and drinking are already prohibited in the Louvre, as well as bringing "excessive" amounts in your bag.

@ChiakiShirakawa

6 ай бұрын

Are there any restrictions on a way how to copy for students and so on? It is surprising to find that in many of Japan's old shrines and temples, taking photos with a smartphone is not prohibited but SHASEI is prohibited.

There is too much freedom in Europe...

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Is that a bad thing

I'm glad glass was protecting that

Oh these activists are bringing up very important issues in very bold ways. I do hope they are found helpful. Feed the people ❤

Throwing food is pretty infantile. Naughty children used to get smacked if they did this.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Not nowadays some mamma's call it an accident

@zacksmith5963

6 ай бұрын

Still waiting for proof israeli bit

@zacksmith5963

6 ай бұрын

I don't think anyone needs approval from your kind

So they talk about people going hungry and wasting food but they just wasted a perfectly good portion of pumpkin soup that could have been fed to someone who doesn't have any food to eat. How is this supposed to make sense?

Terrorism is not a good way to get sympathy for their cause.

Put the paints in a non-reflective glass box! Problem solved!

Maybe if they would have shouted "France is hungry!" and started licking the glass this would have the fuel to go viral. As is it comes off as just garden variety attention seeking women without any game.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Just for second imagine the comments that your scenario would've delivered

Make them work in a farm for 3 years without pay.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Could work does the farm offer housing and food, otherwise it's not gonna work

One guy and a fist can make them both think differently.

Lisa looks hungry 😂 why didn’t they throw macarons? They should protest with the German farmers 😅 I thought French people buys Louis Vuitton and Chanel everyday ? 😮

Such actions destroy any cause. Vandalism is a despicable act and instead of gaining awareness to any cause, it makes people angry and completely dismiss it. Politicians included!

Dear DW stop giving these extremists attention. They acquire money and attention by these actions

FACT: they want to go clubbing with baby seals, not club baby seals.

She could give a soup to those who needs a food instead

Even if you are right, it doesn’t give you the rights to ruin art ! This behavior can’t be justified by the cause.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

It luckily has been confirmed that the Lady Mona is well protected and will hopefully walk or sit against the wall without any permanent damage

They don't deserve to have their message heard.

Despite having a noble purpose, the approach taken ultimately leads to failure.

Give those people who do not have enough food some pumpkin soup would be nice

Storming the lignite mines = 10 Throwing paint on art = 0

A perfect waste of food to protest food for those in need. Right on.

Community service. Lots of it.

@user-iq3cy9hg9x

6 ай бұрын

Any pumpkin factories in France

When someone have an opinion, listen to them. When someone uses vandalism, violence and disturbance, never listen to them!

So soup is bad? Ok. I just going to throw away all my soup then.....

F++k,can anyone translate what she's talking about???

They're right - but they're not going to get any traction from this. They should organise and get people elected