A museum in Vienna has used classic paintings to raise awareness of how much the treasures we take for granted could change because of global warming.
“It’s going to get a few degrees warmer in winter, so what?”, say many people about global warming. The Leopold Museum in Vienna has launched a new campaign to draw attention to the dramatic change in perspective that a few degrees can bring. The idea is simple yet powerful: the museum curators have chosen fifteen paintings from the ongoing exhibition Vienna 1900 Birth of Modernism and turned them with just a few degrees.
The campaign, called A Few Degrees More (Will Turn the World into an Uncomfortable Place), features tilted landscape paintings by renowned artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustave Courbet, Koloman Moser, and Gustav Klimt. For the week-long campaign, the Leopold Museum collaborated with the Climate Change Centre Austria, the country’s leading climate research institute. According to research by their experts, a rise of a few degrees in temperature can make the distinctive landscapes that inspired the famous painters of the early 20th century disappear or become completely unrecognizable. Captions next to the images encouraged visitors to make changes in their own lives to minimize the impact of climate change.
Source: Leopold Museum
Photos: © Leopold Museum, Vienna / Andreas Jakwerth
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