Definition of artistic
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of art or artists artistic subjects an artistic success
2 : showing imaginative skill in arrangement or execution artistic photography
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Examples of artistic in a Sentence
a work of artistic value
He shows real artistic talent.
Both of my children are very artistic.
Recent Examples of artistic from the Web
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Ball’s full-court heaves and artistic flashes of ball movement are a unique brand of fun that were the only thing that had most people hanging on after a week in the desert.
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A: Diverse in their artistic expression, the types of films from shorts all the way to features.
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Lanvin artistic director Bouchra Jarrar is reportedly exiting after just two collections for the house.
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While many artists use light with other media to achieve an artistic goal, with Turrell light is the goal, the medium in itself.
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Local fashion presentations and music festivals, while slowly improving, remain overwhelmingly white and one-note, despite a city teeming with artistic and musical diversity.
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Jeffrey Baumgartener, whose resume includes work at Chicago's Steppenwolf, Goodman and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, recently moved to Michigan City and is the Dunes Summer Theatre's new artistic director.
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The AIDS epidemic of the 1980’s in the United States, which occurred while Hemphill was in his twenties, informed much of his artistic projects.
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On June 14, the laundromat tumbled into New York, sitting across from the Whitney Museum of American Art, the perfect spot for a complimentary artistic upgrade.
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First Known Use of artistic
circa 1753
ARTISTIC Defined for English Language Learners
artistic
playDefinition of artistic for English Language Learners
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: relating to art or artists
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: having or showing the skill of an artist
ARTISTIC Defined for Kids
artistic
playDefinition of artistic for Students
1 : relating to art or artists
2 : having or showing skill and imagination
artistically
\-sti-kə-lē\ adverbLearn More about artistic
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