## Metadata - Author: [[Agence France-Presse]] - Full Title: Climate activist defaces Monet painting in Paris - Category: #articles - Summary: A climate activist in Paris defaced a Monet painting at the Musée d’Orsay to raise awareness about global warming. The activist, part of the group Riposte Alimentaire, placed a red poster over the painting and was subsequently arrested. The group has targeted various art pieces to draw attention to the climate crisis. - URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/01/climate-activist-defaces-monet-painting-in-paris ## Full Document A climate activist poses after defacing the painting at the Musée d’Orsay. Photograph: Riposte Alimentaire/AFP/Getty Images Woman from Riposte Alimentaire arrested after sticking poster on impressionist painter’s Coquelicots A climate activist has been arrested for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musee d’Orsay in [Paris](https://www.theguardian.com/world/paris) to draw attention to global warming, a police source said. The action by the woman, a member of Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) – a group of environmental activists and defenders of sustainable food production – was seen in a video posted on X, placing a blood-red poster over Coquelicots (Poppies) by the French impressionist painter [Claude Monet](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/monet). In the video she said of the poster covering Monet’s art that “this nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place”. Sign up to Down to Earth The planet's most important stories. Get all the week's environment news - the good, the bad and the essential after newsletter promotion Monet’s painting, completed in 1873, shows people with umbrellas strolling in a blooming poppy field. It was not protected by glass. The Musée d’Orsay did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the condition of the painting after the attack. Riposte Alimentaire has claimed responsibility for several attacks on art in a bid to draw attention to the climate crisis. They include soup attacks [on the Mona Lisa](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jan/28/mona-lisa-protesters-throw-soup-at-da-vinci-painting-louvre-paris) in the Louvre, and on another Monet painting, Springtime, in the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts in February. Last month, activists belonging to the group stuck flyers around Liberty Leading the People, a painting by Eugène Delacroix in the Louvre. In April, two of its members were arrested at the Musée d’Orsay suspected of preparing an action there.