0Diego Rivera wrote:02br 02br 00"(...) At the same time, this theory ("art for art's sake") creats a legend which envelops art, the legend of its intangible, sacrosanct, and mysterious character which makes art aloof and inaccessible to the masses. European painting throughout the 19th century has this general aspect. The revolutionary painters are to be regarded as heroic exceptions. Since art is a product that nourishes human beings it is subject to the action of the law of supply and demand just as in any other product necessary to life. In the 19th century the proletariat was in no position to make an effective economic demand for art products. The demand was all in the part of the bourgeois. 01font01b00It can be only as a striking and heroic exception, therefore, that art of a revolutionary character can be produced under the circumstances of bourgeois demand.02b02font00"02br 02br 00Please help me to get what the writer means in the blue sentence. Thank you.02br 02br 00Cadzao0-
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0 During times in which the market of art is controlled by the bourgeoisie, revolutionary art can be produced only in exceptional cases (cases both surprising and heroic in nature), (because of course the bourgeosie dosn't want such arta and won't pay for it.)0-