By Thomas Martin
Published on Jun 3 23 at 6:32 PM
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He had done the trick to us with balloons escaping from the Louvre or handbags circulating in the streets of Paris, the artist Ian Padgham did very well this time. By pretending that the Arc de Triomphe had been redecorated in LGBT colors a few days before Pride in the capital, it aroused many admiring reactions and others very critical.
Far-right critics
No, wrapped up by Christo, the famous monument of the capital, at the top of the Champs-Elysées, was not affected at all. “No AI was used. Just me doing 3D animation and lots of hand edited details,” the artist explains on Twitter. Guaranteed effect and dumpers of critics thus wrongly protesting that the Arc de Triomphe could be “disfigured” in this way.
The rainbow, which therefore only exists on video, was seen by some as a disrespect towards dead soldiers. And not just in France. CheckNews cites the example of Oli London, a British conservative activist living in the United States, who shared a video on his Twitter account viewed more than 2.6 million times on Friday June 2. It was accompanied by this comment: “The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the historical monument erected in 1836 to pay tribute to war heroes and fallen soldiers has been defaced with a giant rainbow to celebrate Pride .”
On Instagram, the artist simply explains his message, which obviously goes wrong with some: “love is love, you are beautiful, and I am so proud to live in a world where we fight so that everyone can live his life exactly as he is.
A previous controversy arose over the Arc de Triomphe at the end of 2021 when a European flag was installed there, arousing the ire of part of the right and the far right.
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