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Two
activists have been jailed in the U.K. for dousing Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers painting with soup. The pair of
are from Just Stop Oil (JSO), an environmental group focused on highlighting the
of climate change caused by fossil
. One of the activists received a
of two years in prison. The other will serve 20 months. In October 2022, the protestors threw two
of tomato soup over Van Gogh's
1888 painting at London's National Gallery. They then knelt beneath the
work of art and glued their hands to the
. The soup did not harm the painting, but it did over $13,000 of damage to the picture
.
