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Tristan Kirk

Soup protest at Van Gogh's Sunflowers was 'work of art', say artists

Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting should not be jailed as the stunt itself was a work of art, a collection of artists have argued ahead of Friday’s sentencing.

Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, both 22, emptied the contents of two cans of Heinz tomato soup on to the front of the world-famous artwork as it hung in London’s National Gallery.

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