The Bourgeoi’rtist

Art by the bourgeoi‘rtist often becomes a reflection of insecurity, trapped between bourgeois aspiration and proletarian anxiety.

The bourgeoi‘rtist seeks legitimacy, clinging to aestheticism, abstraction, and identity performance as a means of escaping class contradiction. Their art, though sometimes cloaked in the language of liberation, rarely disrupts power structures; it performs dissent without material consequence.

The bourgeoi‘rtist mistakes visibility for revolution; they fear irrelevance more than repression. Their art, a frail indulgence, teeters on a tightrope between conformity and shock, self-pity and self-glorification.

Rather than challenge the oppressor, they commodify the oppressed. They produce “radical” art for elite institutions, galleries, and biennales, reducing resistance to style.

Their revolution is aestheticized, sanitized, and sold, romanticizing the margins while maintaining proximity to cultural capital. Their only “risk” lies in provocation, not confrontation.

The bourgeoi‘rtist makes art about struggle, never within it. Their politics are gestures, their canvas a mirror of personal angst rather than a blueprint of collective strategy.

But true change cannot emerge from those dependent on neutrality.

Revolution can only be true when it’s based in the material reality of the struggle.

Art should emerge from struggle, not market it as aesthetic.

Art must be a product of revolution; revolution must not be a product for art.”