Looks matter even in art and academia

[Deleted member 13409]

JMG Le Clezio was a second rate modernist novelist who wrote a terrible meandering and pretentious first book that even today most people read and say “how the hell did this guy become famous”

but the reason he was famous was that his publishing agent saw how handsome he was back in his early 20s, he was like 7 PSL, and realized he could sell his client’s books and make him a literati star by just showing his face on every newspaper

they literally did a professional photo shoot to show academia and book readers how handsome the author was, and it worked and made him a famous household name in France for decades even after his looks faded and he just looked like a random white guy by his 50s

the extra boost at the beginning of his career allowed him to live off his writing and he won the Nobel prize in literature a few years ago for books about climate change and refugees and shit, it’s not good

Almost all academics today consider him second rate and especially his first book that got him famous but his first book was taken seriously by academics at the time literally only because of the famous photo shoot of him and his wife, also yeah he mogs his wife hard, she’s cute but hes PSL 7

normies be like “but when it comes to art and work looks don’t matter” lol

no it actually matters so much that this guy won a Nobel for a career that only existed because of his face. Reminder that looks are literally all that matter. If this guy had written 50 shades of gray, French students would be studying it in university literature courses today

 

[faggotchadlite]

JMG Le Clezio was a second rate modernist novelist who wrote a terrible meandering and pretentious first book that even today most people read and say “how the hell did this guy become famous”

but the reason he was famous was that his publishing agent saw how handsome he was back in his early 20s, he was like 7 PSL, and realized he could sell his client’s books and make him a literati star by just showing his face on every newspaper

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they literally did a professional photo shoot to show academia and book readers how handsome the author was, and it worked and made him a famous household name in France for decades even after his looks faded and he just looked like a random white guy by his 50s

the extra boost at the beginning of his career allowed him to live off his writing and he won the Nobel prize in literature a few years ago for books about climate change and refugees and shit, it’s not good

Almost all academics today consider him second rate and especially his first book that got him famous but his first book was taken seriously by academics at the time literally only because of the famous photo shoot of him and his wife, also yeah he mogs his wife hard, she’s cute but hes PSL 7

normies be like “but when it comes to art and work looks don’t matter” lol

no it actually matters so much that this guy won a Nobel for a career that only existed because of his face. Reminder that looks are literally all that matter. If this guy had written 50 shades of gray, French students would be studying it in university literature courses today

damn , he mogs psl gods jfl

 

[Deleted member 13409]

damn , he mogs psl gods jfl

He mogs Alain Delon, he’s like an even more attractive Dolph Lundgren

if you look like he did then you could write Asian Creampie Diaper Porn novels and they’d teach it in schools

 

[faggotchadlite]

He mogs Alain Delon, he’s like an even more attractive Dolph Lundgren

if you look like he did then you could write Asian Creampie Diaper Porn novels and they’d teach it in schools

bruh , he mogs chico gandy and opry too

 

[Deleted member 13409]

bruh , he mogs chico gandy and opry too

Well he did in his early 20s, he might even give Hexum a run for his money. I would even upgrade him to PSL 7.5 or more

But by his early 30s he really looked average

he had such a strong bone structure that he really aged quickly

 

[Deleted member 13409]

Even now they print his books with his face on it when he was at his peak looks so that you’ll buy the book

 

[jordan56]

Everything a beautiful people does it's extraordinary

 

[Deleted member 13409]

ikr. art is literally all about looks

Can’t tell if this is sarcastic, but almost all famous artists and writers were fairly attractive in their prime. There are major exceptions but especially with visual art these days you have to sell the art and part of selling it is putting a nice face to the product. JMG Le Clezio is the epitome of a beautiful face on a generic product.

 

[Spartacus1-]

If im not wrong I think Leonardo DaVinci was considered fairly handsome in his time. I'm not sure about Michael Angelo but Raphael was also lusted over by many girls for his looks. Brutal tbh

 

[Deleted member 13409]

If im not wrong I think Leonardo DaVinci was considered fairly handsome in his time. I'm not sure about Michael Angelo but Raphael was also lusted over by many girls for his looks. Brutal tbh

You still usually need talent to back it up, but ugly people with talent will always have a bigger obstacle

another famous example is Alexander Zemlinsky, who was literally shunned by other composers and who actually met a girl who loved him anyways despite looks but was forbidden to marry him because her parents thought he was disturbingly ugly (also goes to show that even back in the old days, physical appearance was the most important thing for marriage. Parents cared most about how attractive the man their daughter would marry was, so they could have attractive grandchildren)

Alexander von Zemlinsky - Wikipedia

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In 1900, Zemlinsky met and fell in love with Alma Schindler, one of his composition students.[12] She reciprocated his feelings initially; however, Alma felt a great deal of pressure from close friends and family to end the relationship. They were primarily concerned with Zemlinsky's lack of an international reputation and by an unappealing physical appearance.

franz Liszt did well because he was handsome as fuck and women came to see his shows because they thought he was hot. He was like the 19th century Jim Morrison

Franz Liszt - Wikipedia

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During his virtuoso heyday, Liszt was described by the writer Hans Christian Andersen as a "slim young man...[with] dark hair hung around his pale face".[16]He was seen as handsome[17][18][19] by many, with the German poet Heinrich Heine writing concerning his showmanship during concerts: "How powerful, how shattering was his mere physical appearance".[20]

 

[Deleted member 13409]

is that virtuoso thing a mad stuff fuckery thingy

I don’t understand this sentence

 

[Deleted member 13409]

might be due to imbalance in the chemical systyem yeah in the shore

agreed about the inertia disdain inherent in differences within the quantum desert

 

[Gonthar]

You still usually need talent to back it up, but ugly people with talent will always have a bigger obstacle

Toulouse-Lautrec - a brilliant painter who broke both of his legs when he was a kid and growth was stunted. He became addicted to alcohol and brothels and spent most of his life painting prostitutes and drunkards. Died because of syphilis and alcohol abuse.