Fabian Vas The Bird Artist

The Bird Artist is a classy book that depicts controversial and cruel romantic narratives on the backdrop of profound animosity and pardon. The book features Fabian Vas as the main character and storyteller who sketches and paints at the Witless Bay (Norman, 1995). Fabian Vas lived in an era where the cultural worldview informed the social trends. The moral law was at its apex. Various art movements emerged at the dawn of the twentieth century. According to Fabian, painting is a God given talent to help illuminate his environment. While this would have had a huge bearing on Fabian Vas world view, it remains a mystery how some that hate could drive paints a bird as though it was a bird to murder the same beauty that he appears to champion through …show more content…
The paper goes out to evaluate how the cultural life in Canada and western nations influenced the main character (Fabian Vas) in The Bird Artist in the first two decades of the twentieth century. At the age of twenty, Fabian is committed to making a livelihood and also by enhancing his academic circles in bird painting (Norman, 1995). This was indisputably an era of progress for many Westerners; progress would signify change. Pursuing an education in this context was to accord himself with self-importance and to raise higher than the physical realm. West was viewed as the beacon of hope and the citadel of academia globally, and this may have informed Fabian’s need for education. It is education that enables Fabian Vas to narrate the story with enchanting ease and grace. From the van Goh case, beauty in the eyes of an artist was an issue of interpretation. Van Goh for instance would paint some of his painting from brothels because that is where true beauty was