The functionality of Art is macro 

This automatically rejects it’s immediate utility for consumption which is evident as you see how artists have usually hailed from privileged and bourgeoise circles. Even when they don’t, they either end up being in those circles or their work being hung in spaces which have associations with the bourgeois after their deaths.

In the current scenario anything that is even related to artistic or creative merits discouraged as unprivileged artists usually starve but art by the privileged is commodified. One of the prime examples are many “abstract artists” who sell their work for thousands of dollars despite of the lack of knowledge and merit in the artistic field but since they hail from upper class backgrounds their work gets the classist badge of excellence. As even the “labour” of upper class is more revered than some talented artist of unprivileged family background.

Then there is an entire occupation of “Art Investment” which commodifies art and uses it as “investments”. There are even jobs such as “art brokers” which sell art like stocks and bonds. They resell when these artworks gain higher prices. Art pieces are treated like commodities and assets. Van Gogh paintings are sold for tens of millions of dollars in this day and age, knowing how poverty stricken he was during his life this is even more disappointing. There are so many full-time artists/Van Goghs who create while struggling to make ends meet with cheap prices.