An environmental activist was arrested this Saturday for having carried out a propaganda action at the Orsay Museum in Paris using a famous painting by Monet, ‘The poppies‘, on which he pasted a poster, as police sources have indicated.

This action can be seen in a video that has been shared through the X account of the NGO Food Response, in which the activist arrives next to Monet’s work and pastes an image with red tones on top while displaying the t-shirt he wears that reads “+4º, hell.” An allusion to the temperature increase of 4ºC which is expected in a pessimistic scenario contemplated by the French Government in a Climate Change Adaptation Plan. The woman warns that “this nightmare painting This is what awaits us if no alternative is provided. With four degrees more, what awaits us is hell.”

‘The Poppies’ It is a canvas that Claude Monet painted in 1873 for which he took as his subject some walkers in a field with many of these flowers on the outskirts of Argenteuil, a town on the outskirts of Paris.

Food Response, an NGO that defends sustainable food, In recent months, it has already organized actions using works of art as a lure. He did it in January at the Louvre Museum in Paris, by pouring a soup against the display case that protects the Mona Lisa, and on May 8 by sticking some signs around Eugène Delacroix’s painting ‘Liberty Leading the People’, also in the Louvre Museum.