The phrase "artistic capacities" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's creative abilities or talents in the arts.
Example: "Her artistic capacities were evident in the way she painted and expressed herself through various mediums."
Alternatives: "creative abilities" or "artistic skills".
These two interpretations of art have, of course, their corresponding features in aesthetics, which sometimes comes across as the attempt to critically articulate our artistic capacities for expression and sometimes as the discussion of trifles for persons of leisure.
My experience with Parkinson's and art mimics her current research (recently published in Behavioral Neuroscience): that despite the loss of prominent motor skills, artistic capacities are enhanced -- or are even emerged -- in Parkinson's patients undergoing treatment.
Who should speak for the public if not the architect, who is hired for his professional and artistic capacity to interpret a time and place?
"Eventually I'd like to work in an artistic capacity with her," he said of the pop star, whom he said he met in 2008 at the nightclub Sway.
But few today, enjoying the acoustics and surviving the crush of the once derelict Floral Hall, would deny the transformative effect of the redevelopment on the opera house fabric and its artistic capacity.
There's content — intellectual content, social content, artistic content, political content — but the very act of making these sort of remarkable things and his drawing capacity made a kind of new language".
"Is the presence of this auction really going to change anything?" Paffendorf, for his part, hopes to do whatever he can to make sure that development of these properties moves forward in either a functional -- or artistic -- capacity, though sometimes he admits to simply throwing ideas out there and seeing what happens.
If Lincoln Center falls behind in its technical, artistic and social capacities -- if the goose is allowed to languish -- the present economic slump could become a helpless downward spiral.
It seems to sum up what Daniel Miller later tells me about how most people in the business seriously underestimate the artistic and intellectual capacities of young record buyers.
By enabling people to imagine what it is like to see the world through other eyes, artistic representation develops capacities without which we cannot live together in societies at all.
Although the legislation stops short of an outright exemption for writers and artists, it contains language taking "artistic or literary capacity" into consideration in deciding whether to impose the local tax.
