The phrase "artistic manipulation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process of altering or shaping artistic elements in a creative work, such as visual art, music, or literature.
Example: "The artist's work is a fascinating example of artistic manipulation, where traditional techniques are reinterpreted in a modern context."
Alternatives: "creative alteration" or "artistic alteration".
"In the contemporary photo-journalism on the African continent, I see too much artistic manipulation.
They have perhaps shown more courage in the necessary artistic manipulation of symbols.
These are not photographs that have been subject to some kind of "artistic" manipulation; they speak of the pleasure of looking at the rituals of daily life.
Artistic manipulation of the work after printing raises ethical problems regarding replication and means that a print should be regarded as unique, and not as a replaceable 'consumer' product.
This universal curiosity is what makes maps perfect fodder for artists, and since our cell phones now double as compasses, and the most advanced cartographers are Google cars, digitally-generated maps provide excellent material for artistic manipulation.
And yet Morrissey's lyrics do what images of Hindley cannot do, however clever the artistic manipulations of her photograph may or may not be.
As he began his solo with his thumb alone in Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain," you had to pinch yourself to remember that this was a concert and not a suburban living room; his incredible reserve is one of the great artistic manipulations in jazz.
In my recently-published book on Kaufman's work, I propose that no other living American director has so consistently and successfully made movies for adults, tackling sensuality, artistic creation, and manipulation by authorities (governmental as well as technological).
Jacobson has much to say about attraction, the artistic mind, power and manipulation.
It is these art-content-articulating manipulations of artistic vehicles that qualify as elements in the performance that is identified with the work.
For example, whether an artist's intentional ingestion of a drug during the making of the "focus of appreciation" or product of the generative performance is to be counted as part of the work depends, then, on whether this action is part of a manipulation of an artistic vehicle effectively designed to articulate some aspect of the work's content.
