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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Fishy · 36-40, F

That depends,

Its kinda weird but I guess it really depends on why I liked the art to begin with?

Sometimes I see a cool pic or hear a cool tune and know nothing about the artist

as long as the art itself isn't depicting anything gross or messed up

but other times I come to love the art because I discovered the artist before the art and looked up to them as a hero and kinda developed a liking to the art over time,
and there've been times where I was badly disappointed with my heroes and it kinda ruined it for me

if its the latter case, then I have trouble separating art from the artist, because from that point the art just leaves a bad taste in my mouth