artistic licence
Bending the truth
Artistic licence is the freedom to depart from fact, convention, or strict accuracy for creative effect.
A filmmaker might alter historical events for dramatic purposes; a painter might distort proportions for emotional impact.
The term often appears as justification or criticism: That's not how it happened—she took artistic licence.
Also spelled artistic license.
- creativityCapacity for original thought
- creative freedomLiberty in artistic expression
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- flights of fancyUnrestrained imaginative thinking
dramatization · dramatic effect · expression · embellishment · bending the truth · originality · taking liberties · freedom · stylization · invention · hyperbole · intuition · theatrical adaptation · fictionalization · exaggeration · based on a true story · loose adaptation · innovation
artistic licencefactual accuracy
Truthfulness of claims
historical accuracy · truthfulness · verisimilitude · authenticity · accuracy
artistic licenceconvention
Agreed standard of behavior
orthodoxy · conformity · constraint · rigidity · literalness
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