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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6353987" data-attributes="member: 13107">The difference is between the question &quot;can you separate an artist from their work&quot; (with &quot;you&quot; meaning each hearer specifically), and the question &quot;should you separate an artist from their work&quot; (with &quot;you&quot; being a wildcard, with the question one regarding general behavior).&nbsp; We can all answer how we individually handle the matter.&nbsp; There is also a meaning of the first question which puts the focus on the &quot;can&quot;: Not whether one can choose to or not, but is one mentally capable of making the separation, if if they tried?But, I wanted to point out that, in the US at least, there is no clear sense of &quot;public shaming&quot; or of disallowing a person from conducting day to day business because of their moral character.&nbsp; (Although, there are consequences of having a criminal record.)&nbsp; That is to say, this is an individual matter, with impacts confined mostly to immediate contacts.&nbsp; I imagine there is a bit more to say in this space, say, in China, or Iran.&nbsp; I have no clear idea of the European attitude(s) on the matter, nor for other areas (anywhere in South America, or Africa, or India).&quot;Accept&quot; (from &quot;accepting the flaws&quot;) was poor word choice.&nbsp; I'll see if I can phrase that better.Also &quot;technical artistry&quot; was in reference to truly technical issues: An artists use of color; their brush strokes; their quality of writing.&nbsp; I do think that these qualities can be evaluated as separable details (or so it seems) while other issues (the meaning of the work as a whole; whether to patronize the artist) are harder to evaluate separably.&nbsp; That tells me a lot about how we think about artistic works.&nbsp; And one can certainly study the artists technical attempt to convey an emotion and whether that is successful or not, while finding the work horrible.&nbsp; (Transformers: Age of Extinction has a lot of technical artistry, and works very well on our emotions; but, the treatment of women, especially young women, is terrible.)Thx!TomB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6353987, member: 13107"] The difference is between the question "can you separate an artist from their work" (with "you" meaning each hearer specifically), and the question "should you separate an artist from their work" (with "you" being a wildcard, with the question one regarding general behavior). We can all answer how we individually handle the matter. There is also a meaning of the first question which puts the focus on the "can": Not whether one can choose to or not, but is one mentally capable of making the separation, if if they tried? But, I wanted to point out that, in the US at least, there is no clear sense of "public shaming" or of disallowing a person from conducting day to day business because of their moral character. (Although, there are consequences of having a criminal record.) That is to say, this is an individual matter, with impacts confined mostly to immediate contacts. I imagine there is a bit more to say in this space, say, in China, or Iran. I have no clear idea of the European attitude(s) on the matter, nor for other areas (anywhere in South America, or Africa, or India). "Accept" (from "accepting the flaws") was poor word choice. I'll see if I can phrase that better. Also "technical artistry" was in reference to truly technical issues: An artists use of color; their brush strokes; their quality of writing. I do think that these qualities can be evaluated as separable details (or so it seems) while other issues (the meaning of the work as a whole; whether to patronize the artist) are harder to evaluate separably. That tells me a lot about how we think about artistic works. And one can certainly study the artists technical attempt to convey an emotion and whether that is successful or not, while finding the work horrible. (Transformers: Age of Extinction has a lot of technical artistry, and works very well on our emotions; but, the treatment of women, especially young women, is terrible.) Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]

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