The phrase "artistic convention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to established practices or techniques commonly accepted in the field of art, literature, or performance.
Example: "The use of exaggerated facial expressions in silent films is an example of an artistic convention that helped convey emotions without dialogue."
Alternatives: "artistic norm" or "artistic standard".
Was he a product of his times or did he break with artistic convention?
Yet hasn't every radical break with artistic convention been thought shocking?
When the Impressionists first captured Paris's attention with an independent exhibition in 1874, their flagrant disregard for artistic convention provoked a flurry of disapproval.
The emotional resonance typical of Picasso's work is largely absent in these endless variations on guitars and overlapping pieces of paper.Still, one doesn't have to like each study to appreciate Picasso's zeal in shattering artistic convention.
Dad No 1, arrogant and priapic, is Pablo Picasso: the Spaniard who (with his buddy Braque) violently broke the rules of representation and left 500 years' worth of western artistic convention in his wake.
The catalyst for the Bauhaus's love of lowercase type was the charismatic Hungarian artist and designer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who joined the school in 1923 and swiftly became one of its most inspiring teachers by encouraging his students to challenge artistic convention and to experiment with the then-emerging media of photography and film.
An acquaintance with the artistic conventions and idioms in which the artist operated often leads to better understanding of certain aspects of his work and helps to avert misunderstandings of it.
Hirshfield, a self-taught artist, created nudes, landscapes, portraits and still-lifes that attempted to follow academic artistic conventions yet resulted in a naive, unconventional style all his own.
He and his supporting musicians and female singers are improvising within completely known, although exceptionally complex and subtle, artistic conventions.
Nor does the selection of work illustrate her contention that it represents a challenge to artistic conventions.
But a matter less often spoken of is that Morris understands, and pumps new life into, old and presumably outdated artistic conventions.
