A member of Riposte Alimentaire posing after covering Claude Monet's painting Les Coquelicots at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France with a sticker. PARIS: A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source told AFP.
Of the poster covering Monet's art, she added that"this nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place". Monet's painting, completed in 1873, shows people with umbrellas strolling in a blooming poppy field. Riposte Alimentaire has claimed responsibility for several attacks on art in a bid to draw attention to the climate crisis.In April, two of its members were arrested at the Musee d'Orsay on suspicion of preparing an action there.