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Paul Gauguin

Unappreciated until after his death, his bold, colourful paintings significantly influenced Modern art.

Artists and movements in the early 20th century inspired by him include Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Towards the end of his life he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.

However, it was here that Gauguin took three native brides, aged 13 and 14, infecting them and many other local girls with syphilis.

Posterity has Gauguin down as a sinner, and his posthumous punishment has been a lack of exposure. It was in 2010 that Tate Modern held the UK’s first major Gauguin show in 50 years.

Wagner

Richard Wagner was a great composer, inspired great devotion and introduced new ideas in harmony, melodic process and operatic structure.

However, the German composer was also a controversial figure. People today remember Wagner’s quasi-philosophical contention that it was the Jews who were responsible for much that was going wrong in art and society.

Yet, as Alexander Knapp, lecturer in Jewish Music at London University points out, “Wagner was not the only the only composer to show antagonism towards Jews. Chopin, Liszt and Mussorgsky are also on record as having made comments that could be regarded as anti-semitic.”

Why then is Wagner singled out today? In Knapp’s view, “The crucial difference is that Wagner was espoused by Hitler and the Nazis.” Although Wagner did not advocate the Holocaust - he died before Hitler was born - there is no doubt that his music was adopted by Germany’s architects of mass destruction.

In literature

Literature has a few too many examples of great works but with the authors leading questionable lives.

Ezra Pound was both anti-Semitic and proto-fascist, and if you want to let him off the hook because he was probably crazy as well, the same excuse cannot be made for his friend and protégé T. S. Eliot, whose anti-Semitism, it now seems pretty clear, was more than just casual or what passed for commonplace in those days.

Patricia Highsmith captivated the world with her psychological thriller novels. Gathered from her deeply personal journals, she said that the Holocaust was a semicaust, because it had only succeeded halfway in eliminating Jews. She also hid no disdain for pretty much every race that wasn’t white, frequently mocking them in her writings.

William Golding is best known for writing Lord of the Flies, a ground breaking novel about children fighting to the death on an island. His unpublished memoir Men and Women (which Golding wrote for his wife) details his attempted rape of a 15-year-old girl named Dora.

Creativity vs morals

What makes a great artist or writer? Is it solely their great work that we should acknowledge? What if they were actually flawed people - should that affect our criticism of their work and contributions to art or literature? Do we take a personal stand?

This issue of engage takes a brief look at some examples and asks where we draw a moral line, or conveniently switch off.

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Jimmy Page OBE

Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, and influential rock groups in history, with record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide.

Jimmy Page, one of the greatest guitar-ists of all time, knowingly carried on a “relationship” with a 14-year-old girl named Lori Maddox when he was 29. Maddox was what some people called a “baby groupie” - really young teens who were actively trying to hook up with older rock stars.

The stories of Michael Jackson are numerous; tragic but also deeply unsettling. A video was released from a police raid of Jackson’s Neverland ranch in November 2003, revealing the extent of his pornography collection and pictures of young boys naked. In Jackson’s bedroom and bathroom alone there were at least seven collections of work showing boys in their teenage years, fully nude or partially clothed.

Eric Gill

Eric Gill was one of the most respected artists of the 20th Century. For many graphic designers, his typefaces and designs are the most used and respected. His statue Prospero and Ariel adorns the BBC’s Broadcasting House and the Creation of Adam is in the lobby of the European HQ of the United Nations in Geneva.

But Fiona MacCarthy’s biography in 1989 revealed that he regularly had sex with two of his daughters, his sisters and even the family dog. These encounters he recorded in his diary.

Most problematically, he was a Catholic convert who created some of the most popular devotional art of his era, such as the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral.

If we only allowed art by artists with unimpeachable moral standards, we would have empty libraries and galleries. It appears there are degrees of what we will tolerate. The BBC, while busy purging all mention of Jimmy Savile, has said there are no plans to remove sculptures by Eric Gill. We can abhor a musician’s lifestyle but listen happily to their music. Where do we draw our moral lines? Do we need to when it comes creativity?