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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
You absolutely have to separate the art from the artist, in almost all cases.
I enjoy Bowie, Zeppelin, films that Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey have been involved in. Not to mention the hundreds of films, albums, songs, pieces of art, and many other things abusers, criminals, etc have been involved in or produced.
I understand why some people can't, I don't think any less of them for it, but I enjoy pieces of art for what they are, not who made them. I don't think you have to forgive anyone for what they did, but good things are good things, regardless of anything else, just as bad things are bad things. I think it's important to be able to talk about them together, but with the understanding that they still exist on separate planes.
Do we have to forgive Phil Spector for murdering someone to enjoy the Beatles "Long and winding road"? Or enjoy the countless artists who were inspired by his wall of sound, for example?
I hope not. I don't. But that'd be a shame.
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I don't think you seperate the artist from the art. The whole thing with art is it's a peice of them that they are displaying out to the world . Everything that makes them them they put that into their art. That's the whole bs that artist say any ways . " That's me on the canvas, that's me giving it my all on the mic". Artists have always promoted that that's "them in full" in their media form. Artists have always promoted themselves that the art isn't seperate from themselves. Its them raw on a page,canvas, filling what have you. So why should people seperate them from their art when the for decades have said the art is them and vice versa?
The answer is because now they have been caught they don't want the money to stop and as fans It's an easy excuse to still enjoy their work with a caveat that doesn't make you feel guilty.