Ok... I will start off by saying that I am not a Nazi, I am not a practicing jew but have Jewish ancestry.

I was recently surfing the net and came across a webiste featuring Jewish artists and their contributions to the art world etc. I found the most kick butt artist named Ruth Weisberg. Her art O_O is omg worthy, it's awe inspireing, she has a verry captivating style, and works with various different mediums, and her paintings are so realistic that I actualy thought they were photographs for a while. And as I am wanton to do (goddamn me) when ever I dip my toes into any thing jewish in nature I get this minor compultion to reserch it's counterpart in Nazism. This is a little sick I know, but due to the tie that they have I feel a little obligated to, just to see their differences, or simliarities etc.
Here's where the creepy part begins for me.
Ok, I hate Adolf Hitler. Alot.
I hate Nazi's. Alot.
But recently ( I blame my sister {more on that later) I have developed a curiosity about the thought processes behind Nazism, and WTF was wrong with Hitler. This stemmed from my christmas present from my sister the producers, it's a Mel Brooks movie featuring a mini-musical called 'Springtime for Hitler'. After several days of having this song stuck in my head I decided to do some reserch on Hitler. I didn't like what I found, but it was... grotesquely fascinating. I read some of the pages of Eva Braun's diary ( and WTF that girl was twisted), and checked out some sites whith biographies of Hitler. I knew he was a painter (from my visit to the Holocust Museum in DC) but I had never seen any of his paintings. Back to my rant, I googled 'Adolf Hitler / Artist' and got to see some of his paintings. After seeing the beautiful horror that is "Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ" featuring an Arrian Jesus (the undertones of which make me want run away shrieking) I discovered that I liked alot of his work.
I am curious as to weather this makes me a bad person, or some one who can appricate a work of art more deeply.
By acnologing the fact that the artist was really fucked up but not taking it out on the work it's self, does that make me better able to appricate the art it's self? or does it mean that by not taking into consideration the fact that I enjoy the works of a mass murdering fuck head that I am a bad person who disregards her heritage due to her belief's about creative expression and the artisc comunity.
But I have relitaves who paint, who I really dislike, but I love their work... but that's really different.
I dont' know, but regardless as to who created it, I think I'll just enjoy the art that I enjoy regardless as to politics, and just appricate art for what it is... Art.