From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishartisticar‧tis‧tic /ɑːˈtɪstɪk $ ɑːr-/ ●●○ adjective1ART/CULTURErelating to art or culture
artistic work
Opinion about the artistic merit of his paintings has been mixed.2GOOD ATgood at painting, drawing, or producing beautiful things
John is very artistic.3BEAUTIFUL/GOOD-LOOKINGan artistic arrangement, design etc looks attractive and has been done with skill and imagination
food presented in an artistic way —artistically /-kli/ adverbExamples from the Corpusartistic• I love your Christmas decorations - they're very artistic.• She described her mother as 'very intelligent and artistic'.• That's a lovely picture - I never realized you were so artistic.• She's creative, artistic, and temperamental.• members of the artisticcommunity• What makes them different is their talent and their skills, without which our civilization would lose a pricelessartisticheritage.• One to deal with its mathematical, one with its philosophical and psychoanalytic, one with its artisticimplications.• The artisticphotographer should represent what he sees and no more, he insisted.• Chef Stroehl is known for the artisticpresentation of his dishes.• His technicalcommand of artistic processes never obscured his sense of humour.• It's director says the artistic quality of productions is now at risk.• The director feared that business decisions would affect the film's artistic quality.• Such criticalperspectivessuggest we are in the midst of a thoroughgoingoverhaul of traditional ideas about artistic value and meaning.• The food was presented in an artistic way.• Creators of artistic works have a legal right to copyright.
