(ˈ)är|tistik, (ˈ)ȧ|-, -ēk adjective
also ar·tis·ti·cal -ə̇kəl, -ēk-
1. : relating to, suitable for, or characteristic of art or artists
certain subjects are considered artistic subjects — Bernard Smith
2. : characterized by taste, discrimination, and judgment or by art and skill
you may have an artistic interior or you may have a museum — Herbert Spencer
3.
a. : produced by human art
for Plato artistic production is but an imitation of an imitation — A.E.Vassilion
b. : appropriate for or relevant to a fine-arts presentation
artistic subjects
: associated with the arts : compatible with an artist's attitudes or intentions : not material, objective, or moralistic
the difference between mechanical or purely objective construction and artistic production — John Dewey
c. : suggestive often speciously of art or artists : seemingly frequented by artists : bohemian
the people who came to this Soho restaurant because it was notoriously so artistic — Aldous Huxley
Synonyms:
aesthetic: artistic may stress the viewpoint or suggest the aspirations of the artist as the producer of beautiful things, and aesthetic the appreciative attitude of one who views with enjoyment the resulting product or situation
we have no word in the English language that unambiguously includes what is signified by the two words artistic and aesthetic. Since artistic refers primarily to the act of production and aesthetic to that of perception and enjoyment, the absence of a term designating the two processes taken together is unfortunate — John Dewey
the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure … under which the fusion takes place — T.S.Eliot
the artist's work in life is full of struggle and toil; it is only the spectator of morals who can assume the calm aesthetic attitude — Havelock Ellis
Sometimes this distinction is not followed
an artistic satisfaction in the contemplation of evil — W.S.Maugham
that loveliness which is the creation of the aesthetic human spirit — John Galsworthy