Three Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over two of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings just hours after fellow activists were jailed for doing the same thing to his famous Sunflowers masterpiece.
Pictures show three Just Stop Oil activists stood in front of the Sunflowers painting in the ‘Poets and Lovers’ exhibition at the National Gallery after covering it in soup again this afternoon at around 2.30pm.
Phoebe Plummer 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were jailed earlier today for the same stunt that they performed in October 2022, as they came close to ‘destroying’ the masterpiece.
One of the paintings – ‘Sunflowers 1888’ was the same one targeted by Plummer and Holland.
After covering the paintings in soup, the trio took off their jackets to reveal Just Stop Oil t-shirts and one said: ‘Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history.’
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Just Stop Oil said: ‘BREAKING: 2 VAN GOGH PAINTINGS…