Separating the Art from the Artist with Logic
La reproduction interdite
La Reproduction Interdite René Magritte 1937

Often we are met with a dilemma when regarding great art, philosophy, science or literature: the authors of these works did things we believe to be morally reprehensible. It is an arduous task to address the matter through moral debate. Searching into the genealogy of our moral repugnance, looking back on the history of morality and debating between moral relativism or moral universalism will not necessarily answer how we can reconcile an artist's actions with their work. There is a different (perhaps arguably oversimplified but nevertheless useful) approach we can take to accommodate the ideas of an individual whose actions or thoughts we fundamentally disagree with...

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Edvard Munch 1906
Guernica
Guernica Pablo Picasso 1937