New to the farms and all that jazz, I mostly wanted to come here and ask whats up with you guys fawning over PK's old art or her current stuff that is "good"? It sorta takes away from the whole thing when ya'll here are rightfully bashing on her and the boy toys for being pedo/dog fucking white trash and then switch to talking about how her art used to be really good or how you want to buy flora merch. If you haven't been paying attention, she was creeping on kids back during her PMD-E days when her art was better. You know, that whole "I want kids to find my porn" thing, the drawing a child version of N getting fucked thing, the putting a ball gag in a group centered around a child's game thing? That stuff?
The fact is PK and her husband and her boyfriend all belong behind bars currently for things they have done for years. I get some people here are old fans and probably want to "the old PK back" or something like that, but even the old PK with good art was still showing some stong pedophile tendences, and marl was probably still trying to get 13 year olds to let his dog fuck them. Just seeing people give those small amounts of support to her by saying shit along the lines of "Yeah she's a cunt but her old art was great and inspiring and flora isnt half bad sometimes" rubs my skins the wrong way.
I don't particularly care for PK's art and was never a fan, but completely removing any and all accomplishments from someone misconstrues who they are and what they do/have done. Just because someone is a bad person doesn't mean that everything they do is bad. Trying to boil them down to their worst traits is disingenuous to their representation. While PK and Co are heinous individuals, you don't get to pick and choose what traits they have. PK can
simultaneously be a shit person and a (formerly) decent artist. Pretending one side doesn't exist turns her into a strawman and not a person with reasons (however fucked up) for doing the things she's done. Doing that is the exact same thing people do when criticizing Null, reducing him to an "internet bully who runs a website that makes fun of and doxes people."
While I agree we should be beyond posts about "but the ART," which should have stopped happening at like page 400 at the latest, noting the degradation of her art is important for understanding her mental state and it's decline. PK used her popularity (from decent art) to gain a cult of personality of younger people. As she became more secure in her position, her art became lazier. This coincides with her getting more and more invested in her fetishes rather than improving her work, or even really maintaining the facade. None of this shit exists in a vacuum. It all exists for a reason.
PK has been a jerk since I started following her in 2007. I never understood the logic of "its okay to like the art of an asshole" when art is a reflection of the artist.
This is a personal opinion and PK is not the greatest example by any stretch of the imagination, but some people believe that the art should be considered on its own merits and that the artist's personal failings should not be regarded in the judgment of a work. If we vetoed the worth of art based on whether or not the artist had done something bad, then by the sheer fact that perception of what is acceptable changes over the course of time would mean that any work of the Renessaince artists shouldn't be allowed to be admired. Or any other period of artistic history. And just become something was made by someone bad doesn't mean that the work should be ignored. Valuable things can still be learned from it. Who/where it comes from doesn't matter.
Granted, I don't think PK's art was ever AMAZING and as worthy of the praise it got/gets, but the point remains the same regardless. An artist can make something better than themselves.
That and a lot of people in this thread are aspiring artists themselves and thus WANT to admire art, as is their nature. That's like getting mad at a dog for panting.