The phrase "artistic judgement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the evaluation or assessment of art, creativity, or aesthetic value.
Example: "The artist's work was met with mixed reviews, largely due to the critics' differing artistic judgement."
Alternatives: "artistic evaluation" or "creative assessment".
Geoff Dyer's artistic judgement does not stop him at the bedroom door.
Those of us who can recall the young Australian's performances in the long-running daytime soap Home and Away may have briefly wondered whether Port Talbot's most successful pensioner had finally lost all sense of artistic judgement.
It continued: "The National Theatre's artistic judgement, made by those with the expertise to assess such matters, is that a live band does not provide the same quality and impact of performance as can be produced through the use of recorded music and professional actors.
While describing the pared-down production as "good artistic judgement in view of the nature of the lyrics", Watts concluded: "Harrison has always struck me before as simply a writer of very classy pop songs; now he stands as something more than an entertainer.
Von Hartmann (1888, vol. 2, 11) rejects what he called "naïve realistic" assumptions about the objects of aesthetic or artistic judgements.
I think his oceanic view of rationality versus chance finds acceptance in a time which is profoundly anti-rational, and therefore unwilling to make serious artistic judgements regarding real quality, including those of genre.
But Interpol does not make artistic or value judgements.
Theories of delegation suggest delegating the judgement on artistic qualities and execution of cultural policy to an independent Arts Fund, with the Minister of Culture concentrating on formulating a mission for cultural policy and making sure it is implemented properly.
The assumption in question is, then, that although we seem to gain something from looking at, for example, a postcard or poster of Leonardo da Vinci's La Gioconda, a genuine judgement about its artistic character necessitates one's own un-mediated perceptual experience of it.
The BBFC assured me that it doesn't take artistic merit into consideration when classifying films, but qualitative judgements like the one handed to Hate Crime betray the subjectivity at the heart of the process.
