Can you separate art from the artist ?

That is to say, can you appreciate art for its own sake, even if its artist is revealed to be despicable personally, for example, someone who was an excellent musician, actor ot producer but committed sexual assault, cheated on partners, was openly anti-Semitic or racist ?

If some ills are more acceptable to you than others, where do you draw the line ?

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OldBrit · 61-69, M

Wow that's a tough question.

To some degree yes, if I like the art then I like the art regardless of who produced it but so often then if someone said "Oh that's by so and so" my attitude changes birthday is more because I don't want give financial support to someone like that.

Where to draw the line? In your example cheated on partner would definitely less bother me as that's something where I told know inside that relationship etc etc in most cases I'd let that slide.