# Should artwork be judged by the artist's person? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 9, 2015, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-artwork-be-judged-by-the-artists-person/717196 "2015-04-09T10:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![jezzaOZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jezzaOZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jezzaOZ)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-artwork-be-judged-by-the-artists-person/717196/34 "2015-04-10T12:50:24Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Leni Riefenstahl made a pretty impressive movie featuring him. It wasn’t even a matter of her art being separate from some other opinion or personal foible behind the scenes. It’s a Nazi propaganda film. It’s only a Nazi propaganda film because their team lost. Objectively her work and especially _Triumph of the Will_ is a classic of film and staging technique that would have won multiple Oscars if they had such a category. In the context of this post you should be very careful about conflating your interpretation of a person’s character and their work. In main because you will quite often get more variance in estimates of a persons character than in the technical or artistic merit of their work. Leni Riefenstahl was an excellent technician and also a brilliant artist. There is no doubt of that. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-artwork-be-judged-by-the-artists-person/717196)._