'artistic capacity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone's ability to create or appreciate art. For example: "John demonstrated a remarkable artistic capacity when he created a beautiful painting."
"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.
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?
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.
Katheryn Thayer: When did you start collaborating with Ugo [Rondinone] in an artistic capacity?
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.
Because I was there in a part-professional/part-artistic capacity I didn't get too involved in the activities, and simply observed the goings-on through my lens.
"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.
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".
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.
Hoffman's artistic vision and capacity to execute it earned her the entire commission.
