Climate Activists Glue Their Hands to Francisco de Goya’s Paintings at Prado Museum in Spain
Mia Horton
Published Jan 04, 2026
Two works of art by the renowned Spanish painter Francisco de Goya were the most recent objective in a progression of shows by activists all over the planet to bring issues to light of environmental change. On Saturday, two activists from the mission bunch Futuro Vegetal stuck their hands to Goya’s compositions at Prado Historical center in Madrid, Spain in a clasp shared by Europa Press news organization on Twitter. The man and lady associated with the dissent should be visible joining themselves to Goya’s “La Maja Vestida” (The Dressed Maja) and “La Maja Desnuda” (The Stripped Maja) with a sign that read “+1.5 C” painted on the wall between the works of art.
“Last week, the UN perceived the difficulty of keeping us beneath the constraint of 1.5 Celsius (set in the 2016 Paris environment arrangement).
We want change now,” the lobbyist bunch wrote in Spanish on their Twitter account close by a clasp from the dissent, as per an interpretation given by Reuters.
Per the power source, two individuals had been captured accordingly. The artworks were not harmed, and the spray painting was covered up right away.
“We denounce the utilization of the historical center as a spot to make a political dissent of any sort,” the exhibition hall display said, Reuters detailed.
#ÚLTIMAHORA | Dos activistas ecológicas se pegan a los marcos de los cuadros de ‘Las Majas’ de Goya en el Museo del Prado
— Europa Press (@europapress) November 5, 2022
Saturday’s dissent is the most recent in a line of comparative activities wherein environment nonconformists have stuck themselves to fine art, expecting to point out environmental change.
Last week, two activists were captured by German police after they supposedly tossed pureed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting at the Barberini Historical center in Potsdam.
Prior in October, two environment activists stunned visitors at London’s Public Exhibition when they tossed two jars of tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting.
The work was painted by Van Gogh in the last part of the 1880s and is one of six enduring works portraying sunflowers by the popular craftsman, per The New York Times.
The shows all over the planet by activists have expanded in front of the GOP27 environmental change in Egypt, beginning Sunday.