Artist Vincent Desiderio, whose painting "Sleep" inspired Kanye West's latest "Famous" video, has slammed Lena Dunham for critiquing it.
Dunham previously called the clip "sickening" and accused Kanye of evoking imagery designed to "make women feel unsafe even in their own beds, in their own bodies," reported Digital Spy.
"Artists are not saints. They're not people whose first obligation is moral correctness. As much as I like Dunham and appreciate her, art goes to dangerous places. And this is not to sound like Donald Trump, whom I loathe, but if you want to make it amenable to a certain political class or agenda, what a disaster that would be," Desiderio said.
"It's like saying, 'Hitchcock, that guy must've really loved killing women'. Or Dostoyevsky - 'I don't like that guy very much'. It's horrible to look at, horrible to hear, but there's also the kernel of salvation. That tension between those two things is where art functions," he added.
The controversial video features many celebrities lying naked in the bed alongside Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian.
