Artistic freedom

As artistic freedom , the freedom of the will the artist referred to a template (eg. As an event or person) in the work of art to change in any way.

Artistic freedom describes the artist's freedom to deviate from reality or from certain norms. In the context of a literary work of art , for example, conscious violations of syntax or grammar are referred to as artistic freedom .

Difference to artistic freedom

The term artistic freedom , on the other hand, describes the basic democratic right to artistic activity per se and to the performance and distribution of works of art.

Artistic freedom is therefore something different from the freedom of art from social constraints, namely a freedom “to something” in art; the freedom to create something that does not exist in reality. It denotes the privilege of the artist - in particular the painter or writer - to deviate from the usual formal language, the general usage of language or from historical, psychological or other material reality, insofar as the artistic effect of his work so requires.

literature

• Nicolai Hartmann : Aesthetics. Walter de Gruyter, 1983, ISBN 9783110001464 , p. 273 ff.