Artistic means having or showing skill in art. An artistic child, artistic licence, artistic direction.
It describes the person and the work alike. Artistic licence is the freedom to depart from fact for effect, and claiming it is a standard defence of a film that rearranged history. Note artist, artistry; and that the French artistique gave English the word in the nineteenth century.
1adjectiveartisticHaving or showing skill in art.
“She was very artistic as a child and spent hours drawing and painting.”
artistic is a quality of art.
French artistique comes from artiste, from art, from Latin ars, skill. Artisan and artifice come from the same skill.
French
artistique
English, today
artistic
Borrowed from French artistique. Borrowed from French artistique, from artiste + -ique. by surface analysis, artist + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA