Footage posted by the Just Stop Oil campaign group showed activists opening two Heinz tins and then hurling the contents over the 1888 work, before kneeling down in front of the masterpiece and gluing their hands to the wall beneath it.
Two women have been charged with criminal damage after climate change protesters threw tomato soup over Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery.
Footage posted by the Just Stop Oil campaign group showed activists opening two Heinz tins and then throwing the contents over the 1888 work on Friday morning, before kneeling down in front of the masterpiece and gluing their hands to the wall beneath it. The gallery said the incident had caused minor damage to the frame but the image, which is covered by glass, was unharmed.Painted in Arles in the south of France, the picture shows fifteen sunflowers standing in a yellow pot against a yellow background.
Police said two women, aged 21 and 20, would appear on Saturday at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with"criminal damage to the frame of Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting". Another activist will also appear in court accused of damaging the sign outside the New Scotland Yard police headquarters in central London.
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Oil protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintingFootage shows climate activists opening two tins and throwing the contents on the masterpiece before apparently gluing their hands to the wall.
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Van Gogh's Sunflowers: Women charged with damaging frameTwo women are due in court accused of causing criminal damage to the frame of Van Gogh's Sunflowers.
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Protesters charged with criminal damage over shocking Van Gogh painting stuntBREAKING: Two women have been charged with criminal damage after a tin of soup was thrown at a treasured work of art. Just Stop Oil protesters launched a tin of Heinz at Vincent Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers painting in the National Gallery yesterday.
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