Reply #18: Two words for you: Artistic License

[cherokeeprogressive]

Simply put:

From about.com: ...artistic license means an artist is accorded leeway in his or her interpretation of something, and is not held strictly accountable for accuracy.

Well there goes the truth thing.

Duty to their craft?

Does that mean that when my 6 year old, first grade artist makes a clay dinosaur, it's not art of it's not a "true likeness"?

There goes the craft thing.

"That they express their truth as fully as they are able".

THEIR TRUTH.

IF, and I stress it's a very subjective IF, an artist has a duty, it's "To Thine Own Self Be True". That said, my art is just as artistic as your art might be.