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  1. adjective Of or relating to art or artists: the artistic community.
  2. adjective Sensitive to or appreciative of art or beauty: an artistic temperament.
  3. adjective Showing imagination and skill: an artistic design.

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  • In this house, which I may almost term artistic, and in the midst of tools and implements in which I was destined to take so lively an interest, I was born and educated. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • Georgia O'Keeffe is an iconic presence in American artistic and cultural history. —  Art Knowledge News
  • Costa has been making a name for himself for the artistic, architectural and often softer bent he brings to the label's minimalist DNA - and he never seems to lose respect for Klein's own work. —  The latest WWD Headlines
  • So luminous in the pursuit of their multi-disciplinary artistic, academic careers. —  feminist blogs
  • He had that peculiar gift which has lately come to be called "artistic"--sincerely by some critics, satirically by others--the gift which enables a man to throw his whole soul and spirit into any part which the occasion calls on him to act. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
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