The phrase "artful man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is skilled in a particular art or craft, or who is clever and adept in achieving his goals, often through cunning or creativity.
Example: "The artful man navigated the complexities of the negotiation with ease, impressing everyone with his strategic thinking."
Alternatives: "crafty individual" or "skilled artisan".
And thus, Veronika Kellndorfer creates an artful tension between the man-made world and the divine world of nature.
The most intriguing is "Self-Portrait (Diptych)," a double take of the artist in a costume headdress, doing hand play like an artful magician or con man.
One of his descendants quoted John Adams, one of the American negotiators, as observing, "Strachey is as artful and insinuating a man as they could send; he pushes and presses every point as far as it can possibly go; he has a most eager, earnest, pointed spirit".
Additional film credits include Associate Producer on the Sundance favorite Miss Representation (2011) and Associate Producer on Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish (2014).
Toward the end of the documentary Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish, we see Barrish, San Francisco's most famous bail bondsman, at his fiftieth high school reunion.
"There are particular moments in public affairs," Madison warned, "when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn".
Many of the accompanying soundtracks (Isaac Hayes's "Shaft," Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly," Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man") were more artful than the images they supported.
I saw an artful non-apology by a man who conceded that the jury had convicted him and admitted to the hell he created for his family, but little else.
The man is an artful producer/arranger – the tense, thrumming club track Supaman High is a great example – but his inability to focus on anything but you-know-what distracts attention from his talent.
Cynics say these attempts to play down his beliefs on these issues are nothing more than an artful flip-flop of a man who pandered to the conservatives during the primary, is scurrying back toward the center for the general election, and would govern from the extremist right wing.
