[单项选择]In the last five years prices for western art have soared. Popular artists can’t paint fast enough to keep up with the demand for paintings that regularly sell for $30,000 to $50,000. The boom is all the more striking considering that 20 years ago western art had virtually no market at all. To some extent, its success reflects Americans’ increased interest in their heritage. Certainly there are those who would argue that western art is the truly indigenous American art.
Its roots date back at least as far as the early 19th century, when George Catlin, perhaps the greatest western artist of that period, took his paints and brushes and ventured into the wilderness in the company of William Clark. His close observations of the beautifully savage country molded a new and powerful aesthetic, one that incorporated the sweep of plains and the primitive dynamism of the people who lived there. Catlin’s portraits of Indian chiefs are noble, his paintings of scenes such as "Buffalo Hunt wi
A. popular artists have failed to keep up with the market demand.
B. western art no longer has its market.
C. Americans have become more interested in their heritage.
D. Americans have more buying power nowadays.

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