On October 23, local time, the European art world again reported the unfortunate news that the painting "Les Meules" by French impressionist writer Claude Monet was soiled and covered with mashed potatoes.
According to reports, the painting, which sold for a high price of 110 million US dollars (about 800 million yuan) three years ago, has been displayed unharmed in the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany, but now visitors can not appreciate its "real appearance".
But there is also good news, because the painting is sealed in a glass frame and, according to the head of the museum, the painting, created in the 1890s, is intact.
Two people who poured mashed potatoes on the famous painting, again so-called eco-freaks, shouted "If we had to fight for food, this painting would be worthless" and then glued themselves to the wall.
It's reminiscent of a recent scene at the National Gallery in central London, where Anna Holland from Newcastle and Phoebe Plummer from Lambeth in the southwest sprinkled ketchup on top of Dutch painter Van Gogh's masterpiece Sunflowers while also sticking their hands to the wall.
It is reported that it is quite easy to "take them off" from the wall, but the two are clearly diehards, and in their early 20s, they not only did not admit guilt, but also left the police station with a hippie smile.
In addition, the so-called eco-maniacs are also on the rise, just on the afternoon of the 23rd, four people occupied a zebra crossing in northwest London and posed in the classic shape of the Beatles. Their persistence has caused traffic chaos and a great impact on other people's lives and work.
Not only that, these people are even indirect "executioners", because blocking the road caused the ambulance to not reach the scene of the accident smoothly, and the two women who were involved in the car accident died, and they could have been saved.
While life is constantly being disrupted, people can't help but ask why these so-called eco-eccentriads have such determination, and are they really worried about the global environment?
According to the Daily Mail, this may not be the case, but it is ultimately motivated by economic interests, behind them there is a wealthy supporter, and what is more interesting and confusing is that this person turned out to be the heir to the oil company, the woman standing with Sir Elton Johnson in the photo, Aileen Getty, 65, and the late oil tycoon J. Getty. Granddaughter of Paul Getty.
Paul Getty, who died in 1976 at the age of 83, was known for his frugality despite being once the richest man in the world. Irene lived for a long time as a young man with her grandfather, whose estate was more of a "refuge" for her, as her father, John Paul Jr., was a drug addict. Erin once said in an interview, "I think I'm my grandfather's favorite person because I'm not afraid of him."
It's just that Irene did not inherit her grandfather's ability to create a grand career, but inherited her father, and with the identity of a rich socialite, Irene began a life of drunken gold fans when she was less than 20 years old, and fell in love with Christopher Verding, the son of Elizabeth Taylor, but in order not to lose her inheritance, she waited until she was 22 years old to become the daughter-in-law of "Yupo".
After marriage, Erin continued to live a wild life and contracted AIDS because of an affair with a man named "Gary", which also ended her marriage, but her relationship with her mother-in-law was still very close.
As she grew older, Erin seemed to wake up, devote herself to the fight against AIDS, and formed a friendship with the late Princess Diana.
But it's worth noting that her radical thinking has never changed, and she has publicly expressed support for so-called climate activists, but instead of giving them money directly, she has used roundabout means to put money into institutions that then come forward to give money to eco-maniacs. But no matter how it goes, isn't the origin of these funds exactly what eco-freaks are now opposed?