Last Updated: April 28, 2023, 05:25 IST
The gallery stated that the work of inestimable worth was faraway from the exhibition halls to evaluate attainable
injury. (Image: AFP)
The French artist’s wax sculpture of ‘La petite danseuse de quatorze ans’ was attacked with stripes of pink and black paint
Climate activists attacked a well-known Degas sculpture in a Washington museum Thursday, smearing its Plexiglas enclosure with paint.
The French artist’s wax sculpture of ‘La petite danseuse de quatorze ans’ was attacked with stripes of pink and black paint, the National Gallery of Art reported.
The incident was one of many first of its variety in North America.
The gallery stated in an announcement to AFP that the work “of inestimable worth” was removed from the exhibition halls to assess possible damage.
“We categorically denounce this physical attack on one of our works of art,” the gallery stated, including that the FBI was participating in the investigation.
Activists stated the assault is about world warming.
“We want our leaders to take severe motion to inform the reality about what is occurring to the local weather,” says an activist in her 50s sitting at the foot of the small statue, her hands covered in the red paint used on the glass and the base of the work of Edgar Degas, in a video published by The Washington Post.
“Today, through nonviolent rebellion, we temporarily defiled a work of art to evoke the very real children whose suffering is certain if deadly fossil fuel companies continue to mine coal, oil and gas from the soil”, the group which claimed the motion, which known as itself Declare Emergency, wrote on Instagram.
It urged President Joe Biden to declare a state of local weather emergency.
The group is unknown to most people. It stated considered one of its activists was detained however launched by the authorities shortly afterward.
In the autumn of 2022, primarily in Europe, environmental activists stepped up actions focusing on artworks to hunt extra public consciousness about world warming.
For instance, they glued their arms to a portray by Goya in Madrid, threw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London and smeared mashed potatoes on a masterpiece by Claude Monet in Potsdam, near Berlin.
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