The phrase "artistic functions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the various roles or purposes that art serves in a particular context, such as in a discussion about art theory or practice.
Example: "The exhibition highlighted the artistic functions of sculpture in contemporary society, showcasing how it can provoke thought and inspire emotion."
Alternatives: "creative roles" or "artistic purposes".
Artistic function is complex and variegated, and as we'll see in the notation examples below, can exist at many different points in a continuum.
The rich suggestiveness and prescience of his insights embraced the concept of the symbolical analogue the artistic function of ordering and heightening the ingredients of the actual world and the polarities of experience symbolized in the Apollonian-Dionysian conflict itself, which Stravinsky also explored.
How can a highly artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate?
During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized practices of conceptual art.
First, historical definitions appear to require, but lack, any informative characterization of art traditions (art functions, artistic contexts, etc).
From baskets to handblown glass, craft objects have traditionally been regarded as more functional than artistic, even if part of that function is decorative.
What distinguishes [the Kieselstein Cord] buckles from the Barnhart forms is that the ornamented surfaces of the buckles were not in any respect required by their utilitarian functions; the artistic and aesthetic features could thus be conceived of as having been added to, or superimposed upon, an otherwise utilitarian article.
and hence any way of informatively distinguishing them (and likewise art functions, or artistic predecessors) from non-art traditions (non-art functions, non-artistic predecessors).
Voznesensky was not without recourse: the Writers' Union, as Updike put it, had "tried, as far as its fundamentally anti-artistic function permitted, to cherish him".
