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 Musée d’Orsay in Paris to draw attention to global heating, 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.

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© Photograph: Riposte Alimentaire/AFP/Getty Images

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© Photograph: Riposte Alimentaire/AFP/Getty Images

I cannot tell you how or why, but at some point a few years back I discovered that Instagram Stories not only allows you unlimited emojis, it ALSO allows you to enlarge them to an apparently infinite degree. And so, may I present: FAMOUS PAINTINGS RECREATED USING ONLY EMOJIS! All on one page: Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son. Klimt's The Kiss, Wood's American Gothic, Michaelangelo's The Creation of Adam and more, all moulded from shaded yellow spheres.

Although the artist's enthusiasm wanes towards the end, especially for writing the blurbs ("only to give up and slap a couple boat emojis on it because that shit's hard"), much of the history of art is here. All in emojis.

From the author-artist's substack.

Many thanks to Tehhund, curator and creator of the internet's most fascinating and bizarre phrases and things for drawing this to my attention.