Louis McKechnie and another activist glued themselves to Van Gogh's 1889 work Peach Trees In Blossom at the Courtauld Gallery in London in June.
McKechnie suggested the artist would have supported their protest because he valued nature.
"I believe that a completely logical person who is not a psychopath who owns a painting of this value by Vincent van Gogh would have respected the artist's wishes," he said.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerFrancesca Cociani, for the defence, asked Karen Serres, a curator at the gallery, whether the painting would go up in value because of the protest.
They then took off their jackets to reveal orange Just Stop Oil T-shirts and attached themselves to the artwork.Sentencing the pair at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, District Judge Neeta Minhas said the frame has been"permanently damaged". McKechnie was jailed for three weeks and Brocklebank received a 21-day sentence, suspended for six months.Just Stop Oil has stepped up its campaign of"civil unrest" in recent weeks,
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