"Luxury or no luxury, the man is free. He's free from his family, friends and job. That is why mad people head towards a mountain- to escape the heaviness of society."

@jmp01a24

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Man is beast. Until proven human.

@TheDeepening718

Жыл бұрын

I didn't give up on women I gave up on work. It's a package deal. Love and Slavery (and getting ripped off)

@banzy3

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Probably need to distinguish the art from the man. Gauguin himself was a wife beater, abandoned his children, spread syphilis to young girls and died an alcoholic... I wouldn't have put it past him to have cut off the ear of Van Gogh.

@Ykpaina988

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Yeah, and some just want to run away to the jungles to have relations with 14-year-old girls he wanted to more with than just paint. Some men in civilization lead quiet lives of desperation but along the way learn to grow the hell up and take on the heaviness of the crown bequeathed to them by their ancestors'. To each his own path.

@beansworth5694

Жыл бұрын

@@TheDeepening718 Should've dated a hippie ;p

I escaped my job of 35yrs by being booted out, dishonorably discharged, thank god and now I paint everyday for the hell of it. I ain't no Paul Gauguin or Vincent but sure beats working for a living.

@j0nnyism

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Well Vincent was no Vincent until he was

@heekyungkim8147

Жыл бұрын

Are you happy now ?

@me356

Жыл бұрын

@@heekyungkim8147 absolutely!

@seanericson907

Жыл бұрын

Are you able to receive retirement from the military after a dishonorable discharge? After 35 years, fuck them - I don't care what you did. Fuck them

@denver-gi7ot

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome man. Don't worry about comparing, just be yourself.

Gaughin was a real artist. Yes, all our favorite artists through history were real artists. But Gaughin had something extra that was different. Not sure what it was, but I think everyone here recognizes it while it's felt and hard to pinpoint. His use of color was amazing. And his figures, though not proper by academic standards, are so solid and earthy. I had to grow to appreciate him. I always liked his paintings, but he wasn't a big gun to me. But now he knocks me out. Gaughin was lucky he had a place to escape to. And it was paradise, and the time to be there was right. And a little money probably went a long way. In NYC I have to work all week to pay rent and eat. But in my youth in the mid 70's I had enough money to live in Manhattan and study art and paint and draw full time for 2 years. It was paradise. It's about freedom, that is hard to maintain. I swear I'm enslaved here. I own a little house in the sticks in Virginia. I paint landscapes there when I have time to go there. I wish to try painting some landscapes Gaughin style. I think that is more difficult than I imagine. He had a gift for simplifying the objects he put on canvas. In a way he's like an advanced stone age artist.

@brians1902

Жыл бұрын

The stone age stuff was better.

@SkyeAten

Жыл бұрын

A real artist with something extra? He abandoned his family to go sleep with young girls, in a foreign country... Yeah. I'd say that's something extra 😂🤮

@nelsonx5326

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@@SkyeAten Skye, from The Isle of Skye, Scotland? Cool name. My daughter's middle name is Skye. Skye as a name is becoming popular. My daughter was one of the first. Concerning Gaughin, I'm talking about his artwork having something extra, not his life style. Also, I believe he left his family in good financial condition. He didn't go to Tahiti to sleep with woman... of any age. He and Van Gogh used to rent women every night in Arles. He went to Tahiti to get away from hectic, noisy modern civilization and live a simpler life. But hey, it also turned out that Tahitian woman weren't all hung up on Christian/European morals and enjoyed free love making 100 years before the hippies made 'free love' their motto. What a pleasant surprise that must have been to Gaughin when the chicks there smooched up to him. I think Gaughin married a Tahitian chick. I might be mistaken. In any case, he wasn't a rapist or sexual predator. The local women enjoyed his company. People are doing that now-a-days, getting sick of their office jobs and quitting them to go and live off grid. It seems sometimes like the things we think we own actually own us. We can understand that easy enough. I wonder if there is any paradise left on earth to escape to. Tahiti is full of billionaires now.

@nelsonx5326

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@@brians1902 The stone age art dudes were some damned good natural born artists. With Gaughin his representation of form reminds me of stone age paintings. We sense the volume without much light and shade. And the weight of things, you can sense it.

Thank you for another illuminating and humorous video!

Great of you to do a video on Somerset Maugham! He has been one of favorite writers since I discovered reading. I prefer his short stories to his novels, but M and S was a good experience. I want to escape to exactly where I am. Thanks again.

Thank you for this. Two great artists. The moon and sixpence was a favourite teenage read of mine. There is a pretty good movie from the 1940s, starring George Sanders as Strickland, given the restrictions of Hollywood, it is pretty faithful in spirit. Sanders makes the character of Strickland sympathetic, despite his often callous behaviour.

I struggle all the time between feeling like I want to be somewhere else but also the feeling of paralysis because I cant do that.

@heekyungkim8147

Жыл бұрын

I know exactly how you feel. I feel the same….. I don’t want to stuck in my city which i detest all my life,,,, but where and how to escape is so hard…. Which continent do you live now ?

@who_we_are______5926

Жыл бұрын

@@heekyungkim8147 hello, I'm stuck in the west. Do you feel like you're not from earth like you're from somewhere far from here?

@heekyungkim8147

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@@who_we_are______5926 I always felt like. Being born this earth as human was some kind of mistake. I don’t feel belong to my country or this capitalist society. And living in a big city doesn’t help…. I want to escape somewhere too but where and how? I don’t even know if something better is out there somewhere?

@who_we_are______5926

Жыл бұрын

@@heekyungkim8147 sometimes I feel like the only way for things to change is if we started a revolution and forced change.

@heekyungkim8147

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@@who_we_are______5926 That would be tough one to start revolution…. The system we live in kills our spirit. The super capitalism. Not all of us can function well. I surely can’t and i feel miserable in it. We became slave to money and consumerism. How to escape? I don’t know…. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society Jiddu Krishnamuti.

Dude, this is so good.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

One of my favourite writers. Many of his novels and short stories were turned into movies, e.g of human bondage, the letter. Thank you.

@Fiction_Beast

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Thank you!

@markewings7525

Жыл бұрын

That's a coincidence, I was thinking about the letter just now.

@sharontheodore8216

Жыл бұрын

@@markewings7525 love Bette Davis, an amazing actress.

Gaughan’s words for Daphne are classic illustrations of gaslighting, and the effects. The Tahitian women hadn’t had to wear generations of being denigrated as second class citizens, that changed of course after the colonisation. And there is evidence to say he took syphilis to Tahiti himself. He was a wonderful artist, revolutionary for his time, but his paintings are so much more valuable than his words.

Incredible video I enjoyed this immensely bless 🙌 you for the wonderful share 🙏 ❤ 🎨

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

This really cheered me up for some reason. Gives me some kind of new hope perspective, if that even makes sense!?

Somerset Maugham really understood human nature , made you understand yourself , I have all the short stories , and books , wish I could find the old movies ,

I was in deep thought about my life and sudden I found this video on KZread, surprised totally how its almost define my problems, great great and thank you.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad you found it helpful.

Human behavior is never driven by a single factor. In this case, how much is driven by the artistic passion and how much is driven by the selfish gene? There are two ways to lose humanity, one is driven by desire like an animal, the other is driven by reasoning like a robot. Escape? Where to escape? We are thrown into this world and there is no escape 😀

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

A balance among deep passion, base desires, and measured reason.

@Setton1000

Жыл бұрын

Your reasoning is great! But a bit selfish...

How this genius groomed Tahitian children he found exotic.

@SkyeAten

Жыл бұрын

For some reason artist get a free pass for being absolutely sub standard human beings...

Good efforts bro keep on gratitude from haryana India

i had a breakdown hospitalized now collect disability and live alone with my cats .. i am not cut out for this world. being near the woods right out my window. i am healing from the trauma of the rat race.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

I think some people think art is an escape from life's struggles. It is not. It's a struggle you are happy to endure. I hope you find something you're happy to endure the pain or struggle.

@mariecait

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@@Fiction_Beast thanks

@sankturban291

Жыл бұрын

Stay strong, you're not alone

@mariecait

Жыл бұрын

@@emilyjiuliano639 it is helping though i feel useless not being able to work at that moment… i miss working but have cognitive problems after the failed attempt. hopefully one day i’ll be able to get out and make a life for myself again.

@CarlosReyes-sk1zs

Жыл бұрын

Cats are,the best company

Brilliant topic

Those of us stil resisting the temptation of becoming as insane as Gauguin and escape what we now call social duties, escape mentally. We’re in a state of being where we are physically available but mentally and emotionally somewhere else. Modernity failed to cater for the full spectrum of human needs and aspirations. This perhaps demystifies one of the root causes of current social discontent and related issues.

it is not like he „escaped“ his family. he had a nice job as a bankier, but when a financial crisis hit, he lost his job and tried to be a painter. He failed and his wife gave him an ultimatum of about a year to make it, otherwise they would leave to Denmark, leaving only one of his sons with him. Get your research right bro

@yourneighbor2567

Жыл бұрын

Wow, that changes the entire dynamic of this story if true.

@highimpactsexualviolence5512

Жыл бұрын

He also had quite a romanticised, even fetishistic view of "exotic" cultures which at this point were already undergoing colonisation. He was a great artist, but we shouldn't uncritically glorify his life story.

@davidtrindle6473

Жыл бұрын

Why such an arrogant tone?

Maughams short stories are excellent too. He’s especially good at satirising British colonial society

@chaosdweller

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating thx .

As I am fun of your videos' content, I wish you could share your short stories with us( the ones you have written) . Really want read your writings.

@RicardoDiaz-jt7iz

Жыл бұрын

Y

Oedipus blinded himself. When blind , it increased his vision and sight wandering the earth till being taken back into the depths by the Great Mother....

Sadly we witness a multitude of all consuming passions but only one in many millions leaves Gauguin’s gift for humanity..

Interesting, as always. So if we looked for the embodiment of Nietzsche's thought, would you say that Strickland is a model of success while Raskolnikov is a failure?

While a great painter he was a social disaster who ruined many lives.

@chaosdweller

Жыл бұрын

Damn u alright? haha......, was it all his fault? or was it modern technology that LITERALLY pulled it out of him ......or ? was it maybe? others invading his privacy? that caused it ? or did he accidentally stumble upon something others get jealous of? were all 3 of the aforementioned connected? somehow? haha ....idk ? I'm being a weird artistic person sorry haha , speaking of that haha. Btw I can honestly say I've only known 1 other human that I can say destroyed lives plural haha , it's a very rare characteristic indeed isn't it ? I've known another that I " suspected" of being a destroyer of more than 1 lives but it's not been proven like the other, .... funny I actually heard them two screwed actually haha, now that I think about it haha.

I escaped the corporate world in London at age 39. No wife, no children - was much easier to escape. I didn't go to Paris, nor Tahiti. Went to Prague. That was seven years ago. What do I do today? Run a micro-publishing business. Not only is it possible to make the change, it is often necessary.

@TheVopz

Жыл бұрын

Did you get married

@phaedrussmith1949

Жыл бұрын

What is a micro-publishing business?

@threethrushes

Жыл бұрын

@@TheVopz No, I did not (no children either).

@threethrushes

Жыл бұрын

@@phaedrussmith1949 A small-scale publishing business in a niche area (c.1-2k books).

@phaedrussmith1949

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@@threethrushes That's very interesting. I didn't even know such a thing existed. I hope you are doing well with it and it makes you happy.

Wow, this is an impressive story

i don't buy that gauguin truly escaped into freedom as he merely found a culture that would ALLOW him to do things like marry the youngest teenaged girl/s he could convince to live with him, leave said teen and his child by her, etc. this is NOT freedom. he was a moral relativist. he merely found a culture that let him do what he wanted, or at least a culture that would not hound him for abandoning responsibilities. if he were truly free in his mind, he would have done all his shenanigans within the western culture that would have severely judged him.

Good stuff

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it

In “The Way to Paradise” (by Mario Vargas Llosa), a double biography of Gauguin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, Llosa depicted Gauguin as a more complex character I think. They(Gauguin and Flora) were both unconventional, passionate revolutionists/dreamers in the 19th century when people still believed in utopia.

Dude left his kids and ran off with a paint brush? Regardless of how “great” he was today we call that a deadbeat dad

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

We call him an artist too

@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast yeah sure, escape artist maybe

I was expecting him to have figured out how to jump between realities or something but hey this works too 🤷‍♂️

The painter character in the story sounds like he had a damage to his prefrontal cortex

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

I doubt it. What makes you think that?

@ramonarobot

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast I’m not sure why but my reply to your comment has not been showing up. Let me try one last time. I read some studies observing people becoming excessively compulsive and risk-taking after their prefrontal cortex were damaged.

@ramonarobot

Жыл бұрын

Ahh my reply finally appeared. I think it worked this time because I didn’t paste the link to a study on it. Maybe the algorithm thought it was spam 😅

Man is a beast. Until proven to be a human being by learning control over his emotions. Not even the permanent being Prometheus is able to do that.

And like another comment said yeah share some of your stories with us Matt, please 🙏🥺

I have to admit, although I've never liked Gaugain you have awakened a respect in me for him.

Sometimes you have to apply that Art 😉 in real life situations.

Currently I've become kind of a caretaker to my grandmother age 75, she has lung cancer and recently had a tumor removed from her left jaw. She was already slow but now she's literally moving at a snails pace. She weak & fragile. I'm in my early 30s and I dont feel right about the position I'm in. I'm too young and I feel like because of her I cant live my life. Even before her surgery she was limiting my freedom of expression in a way. I want to leave. I dont wanna tell anyone where I'm going. I'll be called selfish if I do this but I dont care. I think its selfish to demand all of my time. I feel trapped & infuriated at the same time. Move away, become a beast, focus on art.. thats my main goal now..

@AS-gz8oe

Жыл бұрын

All you are doing for your nan will eventually mean the difference between you having feelings of self worth or guilt when she is no longer here. Months after she is dead you will wake from sleep telling yourself you must go and visit your Nan as ‘its been so long since I saw her’ only to realise the true nature of death: When she is gone you will NEVER again be able to engage her spirit. Her body is dying help her experience as much joy as possible. Make use of nice smelling scents. Buy her flowers, play her music. She probably has no desir for food but maybe she can still get pleasure but ask her questions about her past, engage her Your nans condition is the fate of all who linger here long enough. How much happier you will be to know you did your best to make her passing as pleasurable as possible. I wish someone had told me this when my Nan was dying. She spent 7months slowly dying lost ability to even talk and I quietly wished her Godspeed. But when she actually died I was haunted by my own guilt and sadness.

@Unkn0wn1133

Жыл бұрын

seems like mostly in western society people have a habit of putting old people away and forgetting about them till theyre gone, then arguing over their will. I dont agree with this and I wouldnt want to be treated that way either near the end of my life. Mabe the situation is supposed to teach you patience and compassion.

OmG. This title was on my to do list for a youtube video.

I escape to books, jigsaw puzzles, the fur of my dogs, and the eyes of the ones I love the most. Giggles of friends, the sweet scent of the outdoors, and even the bottom of a beer can.😉Thank you for your tasty vids.

@j0nnyism

Жыл бұрын

I hope the fur of ur dogs still has the dog attached otherwise it’d be a bit creepy and weird

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!!

"escaping civilization..." sounds like a great idea to me😅

I have read that the painter’s character has little similarities to Gauguin, only showing the genius of Maugham. His short stories are wonderful but I had a hard time with ‘Of human bondage’. Also, the bizarre way the painter died has stuck with me after 20 years.

Being made"redundant" was the best thing ever

Writers, painters never resolve moral dilemmas, even the ones they find themselves in. Whichever they choose, it’s WRONG. Gaughgan is a good choice to explore, even though I wouldn’t draw any direction or conclusions.

same gaughin, same... u cant escape, your thoughts will follow you. close your eyes and let it take you to another place. you can only let go in hopes that one day you will give something back.

superb

This is very educational

Never cared for his work, but he seemed like an interesting guy. And I’d love to know the details about what happened between him and Van Gogh in that little yellow house in Arles that one night. Like what started the argument? How much had they both had to drink? Man, if the walls of that house could talk!

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

I recently watched the movie. It’s beautiful.

Clever guy

Freedom

The audio sounds like it has a slight warble to it. Did you change the length or speed of the recording? Just thought I’d let you know cause I really enjoy your voice and your videos!

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Yes, in the begining, but later it improves. Thanks for the feedback.

why yt won't recommend you man

Writing is not "easier" than being a doctor - it is different ✌️

Add a description plz?

Google says he spent so much time painting, that his wife took the children to her relatives and he seldom saw them. He didn't find fame in his lifetime. From what I can figure from dates, his youngest child was about 17 when he left the country.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Raising a family and pursuing art can be challenging.

Yeah, it's like going to be a NO for me dawg, I still wrote a novel and painted a whole lot before and after getting married and having kids was well worth the journey, and it was all worth it its just some people like your boy decide to abandon their treacherous profession when a recession hits or the economy changes and their wife gives them an ultimatum to succeed as an artist after loosing thier banking job. Also he was pretty predictable in his fetish for exotic young woman

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Great villains and heroes have similar character traits that make them hero or villain. There are no saints out there who haven’t sinned. We don’t know why exactly he left his family. The focus of this video was the novel so it’s fictionalized account.

Very interesting video. Thank you. The only problem is that the type of person whose behavior is so selfish and inconsiderate of others, who can be understood, if not excused, because of their almost supernatural talent, is rare. More often such bad behavior is just an excuse. I’ve known quite a few people who have taken on that persona, convinced that they can’t be bothered by good manners or responsibilities because they, and what they are doing, is so important. Or at least that is the rationalization they offer, whether directly or indirectly. Most of the time, however, they are just assholes. (I say that as an artist myself, who has always strived for freedom, but who also doesn’t want to hurt people, unless it is unavoidable, in order to keep myself from going over a cliff. Which is why I have mostly stayed alone. Anyway, lots to think about here.)

Ru certified Stupid ? Gauss was far from mad or crazy, he was a fellow legend, smart enough to live in the woods to avoid certain people best to avoid...

Wait a minute, your kick-off point is wrong in fact. Gaughan loved his wife and family, but his wife gave up on him and living in relative poverty and she left him to return to her wealthy family. His passion was painting and sculpture. After she decamped with the 5 kids, he was in despair and followed her to Denmark(?). He then gave up painting to be a bourgeois and became a salesman doing his best. However he was no good at it and earned poorly. His wife and in-laws tagged him a loser and kicked him out. After that his heart was broken and he went ZFG, and took off....to the Pacific.....the story continues...

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Did I say why? I was more concerned on what happened.

@zenden6564

Жыл бұрын

@Fiction Beast - he was kicked out....which is different to the popular insinuation he was a deadbeat dad leaving his family destitute, when it was the rich folks that gave him the 'under achiever', the flick, just sayin'... Waldemar Januszczak a Feminist gave Gaughan a better wrap on that particular point. Otherwise your production was a fantastic episode 👏 👌 👍...

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

I guess I was reading the novel so was more focused on his artistic reasoning to leave things behind

@zenden6564

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast- the passages you read of Maugham's writing were spellbinding...

@AS-gz8oe

Жыл бұрын

Typicall of what a woman of poor character would do from a background like that. Much more believable tale too. Nobody could leave their 5 children without immense difficulty. This is a common trope of men being selfish or uncaring fathers without factoring in all sides

A great watch this, absolutely loved it MashaAllah

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

Now, what kill him ?? Was it syphilis as biographers say or was leprosy as Maugham suggests ??

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Most sources say syphilis. Perhaps Maugham was aware of sexual stigma associated with syphilis or some other reason. There’s also a theory he didn’t have syphilis because his dental record showed no sign of mercury a common treatment for syphilis

I'd like to escape as far as possible from the present times ie the city life, some where probably to the mountains of India or Pakistan 😘

This comment section praising Gauguin makes me laugh thinking that they don't know he exploited his privilege as a westerner in a "primitive" society to get into sexual relationships with many underage 13-14 girls. He hurt a lot of people through his arrogancy to create art. The art itself is very passionate, but don't adore this creep.

Those who criticise Gauguin for his virility better research more than mainstream media. He literally came into conflict with the French authorities for defending the natives from forced conversion and excessive taxation. He was even senteced to jail for his anti-colonial activity but died before he could be brought to prison. The French art historian Henri Perruchot wrote an exhaustive biography of Gauguin (La vie de Gauguin) where he explains in detail what drove him to become an Europhobe.

NEWTON'S 3rd LAW in LIFE-- EVERY ACTION HAS EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION...... Make ur ACTIONS to be KIND and GOOD.. GOOD ACTIONS--->GOOD REACTION.. Bad Actions---> Bad REACTION.. DO GOOD , as it will Come Out as Later in LIFE....

🖤❤️🖤

fav characters??

I want to escape to here

One of my very favourite novels. Here’s a really good audio version - kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIF1yapmZLPNldo.html

This is much tougher for a female human

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

I agree

‘Escaped civilisation’. How do we know about him then?

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

He left some paintings. Literal thinking vs lateral thinking

I hate society and people.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Why?

@ericephemetherson3964

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast When you think what evil man is capable of, you will see that aloneness is a very rare commodity you can afford today.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think man is that bad. We are just animals. We all try to make the lost of the short life we have.

@ericephemetherson3964

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast Yes, by waging wars and killing animal and plant kingdoms.

The art of not giving a f*ck usually refers to other people's feelings.Its called selfishness and those possesed of it are often far from not giving one when it comes to their own

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Of course it’s not black and white. It applies to timid people who don’t try to push boundaries when it comes to creating art.

@randybackgammon890

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast I didn't say it always refers to other people's feelings .....just usually.I also think Gugan was a great painter but a lousy human being from what I've read.I don't subscribe to the view that great art mitigates for any amount of crap and personally I wouldn't put up with it

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

You can’t have it all. Sometimes one has to sacrifice personal relationships for art. I sometimes think being nice and being a genius don’t come in the same package. I agree I don’t want to be friends with him.

@randybackgammon890

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast oh I've got no problem with any amount of SELF sacrifice for art,just being regardless to others welfare.Bob Dylan said he he would never compromise his family for inspiration....he'd find another way

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

It’s not that black and white. I don’t know Gauguins wife and whether she was the one who kicked him out. Whether she made his life like hell. Also he was French living in Denmark so there might have cultural differences. The video is about the fictionalized story in a novel. The video is about the novel. This video is not about morality but about literature.

I wonder his “loss for words” being a quite person due to not having the words to describe all that is in his head would be dld speech impediment now of days

"Painted some of his best paintings after he went blind," say that's some fine painting there said the Tahitins *snickers* yeah those are some of the best *shh*stop*

How did he make money if not by selling his artwork?

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Working as laborer

@WindsongPodcast

Жыл бұрын

@@Fiction_Beast ok thanks

Irresponsible and unloving to leave his wife and children. They must be free together or his freedom comes at the cost of their destitution and figurative slavery.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

We don’t know the full story. This a fictionalized version.

How could a man leave behind his wife and kids!? By that, I mean by what means and how can someone like me do so? -homer Simpson

Maugham ,you seem to have difficulty with the name..

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Mowam! No?

I almost got this one down patt. Problem is , there are things I give a F××× about.

@Fiction_Beast

Жыл бұрын

Art

Is this a new thing not caring being totally indifferent and takes away from personal accountability I wonder are there really any victims out there or at least people who will be interested in this book or just volunteers looking for a way out by being coming to victim

Hi, enjoying your channel! 3 terms you use: feminine? masculine? and animal 'kingdom'? I know, for the time being, there are female, male and intersex (hermaphrodite), but I don't know any monarchs in the animal world. What's your 1st name? See you later ☕

The idea of idolising this man, or pretending he was some otherworldy genius, motivated by his desire to paint, does not sit comfortably. He was a ruthless egoist. He abandoned his family, he abandoned the young teenage girls he made pregnant. We should be able to separate the man from his art, and I do believe his art is of great merit, but his lifestyle was not one of freedom, but endless exploitation of people.

misanthropic adjective disliking humankind and avoiding human society.

Genius you say? He had rotten morals, he deserted his wife and children and in Tahiti he lived with a teenage girl, which after several years he also deserted when he returned to France. It's a hype that he was any good at painting, and he certainly was not a genius.

@Fiction_Beast

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I’m no moralist. I judged him based on his art. I think one can separate the two.

@SkyeAten

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I entirely agree with you. But artists get a free pass for being moral scum bags and sub standard human beings. They could be mass murderers that painted with the blood of children and people would be like "who he was as a person doesn't matter, only his art matters - he was a great painter". 🙄😂🤮 What people don't understand is that the artist is not separable from their art. What most people are saying, is that they don't think it's so bad that he groomed young girls to have sexual relations with him. Or they wouldn't still be idealizing him.

Those who can't write poetry right books.

@Fiction_Beast

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Not always. you could say, those who can't write novels write poetry. Not sure either is true.

True humans make their own tools!!! If you think you can call yourself an artist but have not created a tool or a format, think again.

Reminds me of my great grandfather except was a vacuum salesman - no fucks to be given, probably died alone though.

@Fiction_Beast

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That’s most of us.

@dullknifefactory

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I'll never understand people's obsession with who dies alone and who not. Or why it matters. I imagine it's something the average peon fears.

@MaxLib

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@@dullknifefactory I’m not sure if it matters.. everyone dies. Alone or not.

Audio is low quality... please improve

@Fiction_Beast

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Yes, in the begining, but later it improves. Thanks for the feedback.

gotta get me a nice lady

@Fiction_Beast

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Good luck mate!

Something wrong with the narration on this.

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wow, that novel is very sexist.

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