#im sorry my picasso answer was lackluster

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4 and 7!! they kinda go together: opinion on picasso?

do you think its ok to separate the artist from the art? I absolutely do, though I think it’s a far more complicated and fluid task than we’d like to think. As a literature student, this has always been the case when it comes to great works. As far as artists of any sort go, I think you are entitled to separate art from the artist because the art belongs, in some significant, deeply intimate way, to the audience/reader/viewer. Other times, you’re entitled to disengage from art because of the artist and because the corruption of the artist bleeds irrevocably into the art (Joseph Conrad was a vile racist, for example, and that much is apparent in The Heart of Darkness). At the same time, when the artist is alive, the task becomes more difficult: I think it is silly to pretend that any work exists without problematic dimension, that any artist exists without blunders or faults. Everything, simply by consequence of being made by human beings, will have it’s sins and faults and I think ... even the use of the word “problematic” has become associated to a very intolerant, very morally chauvinist and simplistic way of thinking. I don’t give two shits if we find definitive proof tomorrow that Shakespeare was a raging homophobe- I love his works and my lil gay hands are going to make them queer until the day I die. At the same time, I refuse to pay to see a Woody Allen film. When it comes to our contemporaries, I feel like fiscal support can sometimes be a very tricky but added component. Should we be contributing to the financial success of someone like Roman Polanski? Perhaps not. What about the fact that everything we pay to consume has likely passed the hands of at least one absolutely abhorrent person, unbeknownst to us? Ethical consumption isn’t entirely possible in this regard. And when you draw your moral lines, they may look different than that of others- I don’t think we need Allen’s film for cinema to flourish, but others would disagree because Annie Hall will always mean the world to them. C’est la vie. Opinion on... As far as Picasso goes, I can’t pretend to know much about the artist in depth. I know the usual spiel about him: a bully, a violent misogynist, a sexual creep. I don’t think those things are untrue. He was also intimate friends with Gertrude Stein. The reality of his person is obviously not comfortable and wholly good, but perhaps he wasn’t entirely evil. And, well, even if he was- let’s say he was an absolute garbage fire of a person. He still contributed to the world of art in a way that was incredibly significant. I think that if the world never saw a Picasso starting today, perhaps art would lose something indeed. That said .... lmao I always had the snotty, indignant idea he was vastly overrated and his art personally doesn’t do anything for me lmao