I love art (the arts) and think that if we only want "morally acceptable artists" we will be in a lot of trouble, especially if these are people from other times and we try to apply a 2023 moral judgement to them.
If we go by moral judgement then we are not looking for works of art, but rather for people that fit into a mold we create, a problematic mold because it changes by the hour and what today is acceptable maybe in a few months won't.
Critical-Ad2084 t1_jcl93t0 wrote
Reply to Debates in Separating Art and Artist by adarsh_badri
I love art (the arts) and think that if we only want "morally acceptable artists" we will be in a lot of trouble, especially if these are people from other times and we try to apply a 2023 moral judgement to them.
If we go by moral judgement then we are not looking for works of art, but rather for people that fit into a mold we create, a problematic mold because it changes by the hour and what today is acceptable maybe in a few months won't.