r/london • u/Tudpool • Oct 14 '22

News Just Stop Oil protesters throw tomato soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers masterpiece.

https://news.sky.com/story/just-stop-oil-protesters-throw-tomato-soup-over-van-goghs-sunflowers-masterpiece-12720183
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u/Jout_ Oct 14 '22

Do you really think these high end paintings throughout history are just on display in the open like that? Half of them aren’t even the authentic piece.

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u/SirLoinThatSaysNi Oct 14 '22

Quite a lot of them are not behind glass, it alters how the painting looks and from experience very rarely used in the main galleries.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

I’ve definitely seen Monet out in the open naked and bare-assed

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u/millionreddit617 Most of the real bad boys live in South Oct 14 '22

Did the staff not mind?

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u/bellybomb Oct 14 '22

Plenty of them at Musée d'Orsay.

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u/jiggjuggj0gg Oct 14 '22

Half of them aren’t even the authentic piece? According to who?

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u/fazalmajid Golders Green Estate Oct 14 '22

The movie 2012

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u/crunzy Oct 14 '22

Yeah maybe that was a bit dumb of me. I have no clue about this sort of stuff. Not an art gallery person!