♻️ Reblog of
Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)
You cannot separate art from artist; they flow from the same font, the same value system, the same framing, the same agenda. There is but one personality behind both of them.
You can put the art of dead artists in their historical contexts to maybe lessen their blame. But living artists in a shared culture deserve no such latitude, as their context is NOW.
Elevating the art endorses the artist. You can’t help doing the latter when you do the former.