Can you really seperate the art from the artist?

With all the hate towards J.K Rowling (deserved) and lets say Kanye West for example, you can enjoy the art but can you really separate what they c…

Hitler’s paintings weren’t absolutely godawful and he should not have dropped out of art school. They weren’t great paintings by any means but if he stuck with painting he could have blown his brains out in a bordello in Berlin instead of a bunker all blitzed up on benzedrine.
Hitler was never admitted to art school in the first place.