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He acquired an enviable reputation in literary and art circles for his artistic ability.

So even to-day, when we fail to see the truth of religion, we seek in its observance an artistic gratification.

Photoshop does not allow for much artistic flourish.

So when playwrights reinvent or update an earlier play, it shouldn't be construed as a lack of imagination or an artistic failure.

And by culture, we mean anything from artistic styles to……um……you know, technology, science.

Some things tend to spread much quicker, um, for example, artistic, or architectural styles, such as domes used in architecture.

Now, avant-garde is a term that applies many different artistic genres.

They designed buildings based on the demands of the public, not so much their own artistic vision, and created a residential community in the state of New York that became known as Levittown.

But there is this popular mental image people have of an artistic genius producing a masterpiece in total solitude.

The flooding of Britain with red-gloss pottery form Gaul (modern-day France), decorated with scenes from Classical mythology, probably brought many into contact with the styles and artistic concepts of the Greco-Roman world for the first time, whether or not the symbolism was understood.

One result was an influx of craft worker, particularly those skilled in artistic media like stone-carving which had not existed before the conquest.

And Hugo, like other Romantics, was also opposed to the artistic rules that the neoclassicists had inherited from the Enlightenment.

Hockney argues that the camera obscura does not replace artistic skill in drawing and painting.

Yet as far as his artistic talent, no one's ever called him a great artist or a great illustrator.

However, he aimed to combine an incredibly broad variety of fine arts and crafts under one artistic roof.

The concept of the individual artist, especially the concept of the artist as an artistic genius struggling alone with a vision as opposed to...say...a mere artisan...well, the idea of the artist as a lone genius didn't develop until later. 

Books became major vehicles for artistic expression, and the artists who produced them, notably calligraphers and painters, enjoyed high status, and their workshops were often sponsored by princes and their courts.

This in turn allowed the easy transfer of artistic ideas and motifs over great distances from one medium to another, and in a different scale in ways that had been difficult, if not impossible, in the previous period.

So Gazda hypothesizes that copying didn’t indicate a lack of artistic imagination or skill on the part of Roman artists, but rather the Romans made copies because they admired Greek sculpture.

Well, we have all kinds of pre-conceived ideas about how artistic styles develop.

But we need to be careful with the idea that artistic development occurs in a straight line, from simple to complex representations.

OK, the first thing you should do is you absolutely have to stay true to your artistic vision; take the pictures you want to take.

Moreover, the tensions that arose within the Roman state produced literary and artistic sensibilities of the highest order.

We might expect that early artistic efforts would be crude, but the cave paintings of Spain and southern France show a marked degree of skill.

The idea was that there be a federal subsidy…um…uh…financial assistance to artists and artistic or cultural institutions.

And his films are much more artistic, incorporating music as an important element.

For example, some early societies ceased to consider certain rites essential to their well-being and abandoned them, nevertheless, they retained as parts of their oral tradition the myths that had grown up around the rites and admired them for their artistic qualities rather than for their religious usefulness.