In every class about art history or literature or film, you’re constantly analyzing works through the lens of not only the artist’s life, but of the their period and place in history. Your teachers will always go “to understand this character you have to know the author’s brother died when he was young” or “this painting was a reflection of the artist’s experiences in World War 2.” It’s only when they turn out to be a rapist do people go “weeellllll I mean you should be able to separate the art from the artist.”
This is important. We shouldnt separate art from the artist. But i think that also means that refusing to see talent and beauty in the art of terrible people is a bad idea (you don’t have to support art to recognize it as having skill and talent). We as humans like to separate things into black and white, good and bad, monster and person. People are surprised when they see pictures of genocidal leaders spending time with their kids, cuz we see them as monsters and not people with 3dimensional lives. That’s not to say that they’re not terrible and monstrous. But when we separate things like that, it makes it harder to spot terrible people in the present and makes it easier to brush things under the rug or excuse bad behavior, cuz “they aren’t all bad”.
Monsters can be remarkably talented humans. Remarkably talented humans can do terrible things. Terrible people can make genuinely amazing art. Being a terrible person doesn’t mean your art is inherently garbage, and being talented doesn’t excuse your awful actions. A person can make revolutionary and influential art while being a shit. It’s not either or, it’s often and. You can make the moral decision to not support an artist who is also a gross human being, but I think it’s important that we not destroy or censor that art. We need to remember that the talented should not be put on a pedestal for their art, and that beautiful art can come from the worst of humanity – lest we forget our past mistakes.
Tbh what I’d love to see in every art gallery and museum and public piece, would be an honest account of the artist’s actions – the great and the horrible. To see the juxtaposition (or reinforcement) of their art and their actions. I think maybe then we could see that any human can be amazing while also being shit, and the elitism in the art world could finally take a blow big enough to kill it. Who cares how many famous avant garde pieces you’ve made, you’re a fucking prick who has left far more scars than beauty in the world.
Animating smoke is so hard??? Like… I kinda did it? But… Idk. I feel like it looks like crap?
I’ve just discovered my new favorite painter, Vittorio Reggianini – those smarter than myself probably already know of him as an Italian painter from the 1800s who made satin look even satiny-er than satin. I just cannot get over how much he loved painting women who were NOT. HAVING. A. MAN’S. SHIT.
But there was one hottie that everyone seemed to like, and I can’t blame them…
Vittorio knows what the ladies like.
I like to imagine that they’re smiling cuz *INTERNALLY SCREAMING* and compulsory politeness
Also when he was being treated in a hospital he wrote a letter to his brother, and in it he says how he was actually feeling better than he had in a really long time and how he was doing his best art ever. If he had had access to more effective modern treatment, who knows how much more art he would have made and how amazing it would have been
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