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Haha, imagine giving a shit about an artist's views and actions outside of the art they create. I don't expect my doctor or political representative to be a good painter. Why would I expect my painter to give me medical advice or represent me politically? They're completely different activities and I look for different people to perform them.
Imagine not being able to read the title correctly. It's not about your painter thinking differently or voting differently. It's about your painters actions.
He made a beautiful, remarkable signed painting. It's the center piece in your living room. And then it comes out he was was abducting, raping, and killing women.
The painting looks the same. 1 week later his name will fade and no one remembers. But you might feel a lot differently about it knowing it was his painting. I'm not gonna claim it's right or wrong whatever you decide. You do you. But im sure you can appreciate the potential moral dilemma.
Let's be real here, if the artist created great work and then was also a killer, not only is the painting still just as aesthetically pleasing as it always was, but if we are going to care about what they did outside of the art, it only makes the art more interesting as an example of the varied nature of humanity. The same individual produced heinous murder and exquisite beauty.
Sure, but you displaying it also communicates to your guests that you're not disgusted enough by his actions to remove it, and also that you're not embarrassed that you financially supported someone evil.
That'd be like expecting the lead singer of the Offspring to do a Ted talk on molecular biology or the guitarist from Rage Against The Machine to debate political science.
Madness!
But you wouldn't expect the guitarist of Rage Against the Machine to give a talk on molecular biology. Just because one musician can do a thing, we do not expect all musicians to do those same things.
You're right that we shouldn't expect them to align the majority if the time, but it's not a reaction to the way things SHOULD be. If the person who disagrees with you gets a bunch of money they can wield it against your interests, and they will. It's a shitty matter of pragmatism that people have been forced to widen their view.
I doubt most people enjoy the situation society has landed us all in, we just wanted cool music and instead we get cool music with celebrity endorsed PACs hiding just out of view.
Most artists don't have anything like that kind of cash or cache. Maybe some of the big corporate marketing babies but not many outside of that. I don't have a significant worry that some guy is going to use my few dollars from bandcamp to push some political party regardless of their beliefs, and I don't listen to marketing-powered, soulless pop nonsense that gets the kind of money behind it I'd have to care about.