The phrase "artistic canon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a collection of works that are considered representative or essential within the field of art, literature, or culture.
Example: "Many critics argue that the artistic canon needs to be expanded to include more diverse voices and perspectives."
Alternatives: "cultural canon" or "literary canon".
If anything, the rewriting of the artistic canon to include more women sets it back.
His plays, and the operas and ballets created from his work, form the core of the Russian artistic canon.
As with any artistic canon, the matter of who decides which works are considered worthy of preservation can be key.
Although markings had been found on earlier objects such as animal bones and blocks of ochre, none attested to group adaptation of an artistic canon.
She lays much of the blame on the mainly male academics who compiled what we think of as the artistic canon.
Three decades after launching his career with a series of fake Old Masters that seemed to mock the artistic canon, he has combined European historical portraiture with American caricature to present old and modern-day heroes in an unheroic light.
For us, it's not easy to appreciate fully the upset to accepted artistic canons Courbet's work represented.
On the southern Gulf coast plain, Olmec traditions seemed to have lasted into the Early Classic and merged with Teotihuacán artistic canons to produce new kinds of art.
The passing of 19th-century artistic canons has been reflected in American coin designs, which since 1909 have portrayed statesmen rather than personifications of liberty.
Based on archaeological fi nds from the Upper Paleolithic sites of the Carpathian-Dniester Region, Republic of Moldova (Molodova I, Brinzeni I, Cosăuţi, Mitoс Malul Galben, and Climăuţi II), compared with objects of portable art of other regions and with ethnological data, the origin of certain images and artistic canons is traced.
The gap between exhibition and catalog reveals much about the pitfalls of the curatorial discipline, including art theory's blinkering of vision; discomfort with new, unsanctioned art; and the tendency toward what might be called reverse revisionism — that is, narrowing, rather than broadening, artistic canons.
