Two individuals have actually attempted– and stopped working– to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 work of art The Scream.
Norwegian cops verified the foiled demonstration happened at a museum in Oslo this afternoon.
No damage was reported to the painting, which portrays a waif-like figure appearing to yell.
Police stated officers were contacted us to the National Museum of Norway and had 3 individuals under ‘control’.
A 3rd individual shot the set attempting to attach to the painting, Norwegian news firm NTB reported.
The space where the glass-protected painting is shown was ’em ptied of the general public and closed’ and will resume as quickly as possible, the museum stated.
Police stated there was glue residue on the glass install following the stunt.
A video of the event revealed museum guards holding 2 activists with one shouting ‘I scream for people dying’ and another one shouts ‘I scream when lawmakers ignore science’ while an individual was protecting the painting from the protesters.
Environmental activists from the Norwegian organisation Stopp oljeletinga– Norwegian for Stop Oil Exploration– lagged the demonstration, stating they ‘wanted to pressure lawmakers into stopping oil exploration’.
Norway is a significant manufacturer of overseas oil and gas.
‘We are campaigning against Scream because it is perhaps Norway’ s most popular painting,’ activist spokesperson Astrid Rem informed the Associated Press.
‘There have been lots of similar actions around Europe. They have managed something that no other action has managed: achieve an extremely large amount of coverage and press.’
Today’s demonstration is the most recent episode in which environment activists have actually targeted popular paintings in European museums.
Two Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring in a Dutch museum in October were sentenced to 2 months in jail.
The painting was not harmed and gone back to its wall a day later on.
Earlier this month, environment protesters tossed mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum and a comparable demonstration occurred in London, where activists tossed soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery.
In both those cases, the paintings likewise were not harmed.
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