"artistic device" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English, usually referring to a technique or method used to convey a certain effect in a piece of writing, artwork, or other type of creative expression.
For example, you might say, "The author used an artistic device of foreshadowing to build suspense in the story."
The train is an artistic device, a heightening effect, a vibrato supplied by the great sound designer Walter Murch.
As the country hurtled toward conflict in 1860, Northern political cartoonists relied increasingly on Columbia as an artistic device to represent the United States.
She also listed the 57,000 names not alphabetically but chronologically according to when the soldiers died or went missing, an artistic device.
The company argued that its umlaut was an artistic device, and that Möben was derived from the founders' names, Mo and Ben, but there is no denying it lent some Teutonic gravity.
Spelling out provocative neon messages is not a new artistic device, but the line Cook illuminates in white neon grabs attention in a fresh, telling way: "Some of My Best Friends are Black".
This artistic device was used either to simulate the fluttering of the flags or to actually display the metallic thread and paint that was sometimes used to decorate them.
Apple could sell the devices as professional-level artistic devices if it introduces those kinds of features, in addition to just making things better for everyday users who want to jot notes and doodle, for example, or perform minor photo touch-ups.
#29 -- Razzle Dazzle Devices, artistic security systems Next up, we'll note something a bit odd, the Razzle Dazzle devices created by art team Design 99.
Virtual reality now spans mediums as a gaming format, a storytelling device, and an artistic endeavor, amongst many other things.
Using ekphrasis a device where one artistic medium is used to capture the spirit of another as a mechanism for storytelling is a daunting proposition that most modern writers avoid.
Engaging, accessible take on art history, following a wealthy dilettante's quest to unlock the secrets of Vermeer's uncannily photorealistic paintings (artistic gifts or clever optical devices?), and thus create his own, which turns out to be more daunting than he assumed.
