Similar to the recent question about artists where you can successfully separate them from their art. Are there any artists who did something so horrible, so despicable, that it has instantly invalidated all art that they have had any part in?

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Not as if I’m a fan, but Eric Gill is/was a prolific, respected and internationally renowned artist. You’ll his work across the UK, perhaps most notably on the BBC’s broadcasting house.

    Also designed the Gill Sans typeface, which I think everyone’s heard of or even used. Used all across the world on signage or stores.

    Here’s why I have a hard time taking his works at face value:

    Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as “the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius”, he is also a figure of considerable controversy following the revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters and of his pet dog.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill