The passage suggests that the mystification of the artistic process by certain art histori

ans and artists can be traced to

A．the necessity of protecting artistic meaning from a general public who would most likely misunderstand and object to it

B．an unconscious tendency of non-artists to lionize those artists whom the public admires but fails to understand

C．a desire to protect and maintain the isolation between those who make art and those who analyze it, so as to reinforce the creative/critical distinction

D．a movement to expunge the challenging texts of dual artist/critics like Leonardo da Vinci and Mary Kelly from the critical canon

E．a distinction between the methodology of scholars, who tend to be erudite, and that of artists, who are more intuitive in their thinking processes