Artistic License is a term batted about for years, often misused. Too many times, it gets wielded as a clandestine excuse for lacking skill, but when understood can lead to masterful work.
For the visual artist, to use Artistic License means intentionally changing or distorting the characterization of something. It is the artist's way of reinterpreting towards a purpose other than obvious appearance.
One excellent example of masterful distortion is the exaggerated size of the right hand of Michangelo's David. Using Artist License might mean to take the obvious and interpret it with simplified shapes and limited colors like Jennifer McChristian does in LA Wash, Late
Morning.
It could mean finding exciting fractal like planes and translating the subject using that interpretation like Quang Ho does in this painting.
Exaggerating the temperature or finding a new temperature altogether can yield an exhilarating expression of common still life images. Qiang Huang does this in his cool interpretation of a still
life.
Aside from being familiar with the skills, the only thing required to use Artistic License is to understand what your are looking at and to see in it a possibility beyond the
obvious.
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