China News Network on January 29**: Two ** people poured pumpkin soup on da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre Museum in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", but fortunately the painting was protected by a glass cover and was not damaged.
The incident occurred at around 10 a.m. local time on January 28, and the two women responsible were climate activists from the group Food Back Strike. The "purpose" of the organization is the so-called "for human health, for green life". The Louvre said the two hid pumpkin soup in a thermos and brought it into the museum. The exhibition hall had to be closed for an hour before reopening to the public. The Paris prosecutor's office said both men had been detained.
"Green life" is of course important, but it's ridiculous to take a famous painting. The Mona Lisa is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance painting and the treasure of the Louvre. The French Minister of Culture criticized the "soup spilling" incident: "The Mona Lisa, as our heritage, belongs to future generations, and there is no reason to attack it. ”
The Mona Lisa has also been "attacked" many times before, mainly by some extreme environmentalists. The painting has been protected behind glass since 1956, when a man threw a stone at the painting, causing damage to the figure's left elbow. In 2009, a woman threw an empty teacup at the painting. In May 2022, a man disguised as an elderly woman threw custard pies at the painting, claiming that the artists were not paying enough attention to "the earth".
There have been many similar absurd incidents, and many famous paintings have been targeted by extreme environmentalists. Sandro Botticelli's famous painting "Spring" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, Van Gogh's masterpiece "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London, and Monet's famous painting "Haystack" at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany, have all suffered this fate.
They spread wild, even to Marathon. On September 24, 2023, at the site of the annual Berlin Marathon, environmentalists splashed paint on the track at the beginning of the stage, lay on the ground, and clashed with **. They come from Germany's "last generation" extreme environmental group, whose mission is "against global warming, against fossil fuels".
These radical environmentalists abroad believe that "justice is mine", and have an extreme distortion of the concept of environmental protection. Their unreasonable and absurd practices are to attract attention, expand their influence, and "stimulate people's morale"; They believe that "time is running out" and "environmental protection is not about inviting guests to dinner, and we can't be gentle and frugal", and we must be ruthless.
A good natural ecological environment is, of course, the fairest public good and the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being, and it is necessary to protect the environment. "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", which is true for the whole world. However, to protect the environment, we should not engage in radical and extreme, all kinds of extreme behaviors, the result is often counterproductive, and ultimately it is the damage to environmental protection; And these extreme environmentalists never seem to be afraid of being ridiculed by the Mona Lisa.
We know that the "Mona Lisa's smile" is the most famous and charming smile in the world. Interestingly, as early as December 17, 2005, the Louvre unveiled the Mona Lisa's "smile formula", which was believed to contain 83% happiness, 9% disgust, 6% fear and 2% anger. This result was analyzed by a set of "emotion recognition software", which was jointly developed by the University of Illinois in the United States and the Amsterdam Computer University in the Netherlands. In the future, human beings must not let the smiling Mona Lisa "cry", but always keep her mysterious and charming smile, and stop increasing her disgust, fear and anger!