Can you separate the Art from the Artist?

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6. To appreciate art, one must compartmentalize the artist from the art.

My father was almost jubilant in his boycotting any film with Ingrid Bergman after she left her husband and daughter, hooked up with Roberto Rossellini and had a child/ren out of wedlock with him. My father felt superior and moral by his condemnation.

I do not share his punishment of the artist through his/her art. If you're going to go "there", then why are you listening to the Beatles? John Lennon publicly said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus and the South went crazy, burning and smashing Beatles records. John Lennon was once a misogynist. often treating his first wife, Cynthia, like a foolish creature without value, leaving her for Yoko Ono as a public humiliation. I will continue to be a devotee of both the Beatles and John Lennon. What is personal is person. What is professional is professional.