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What is the difference between artistic and creative?

artistic | creative |

As adjectives the difference between artistic and creative

is that artistic is having or revealing creative skill while creative is tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.

As a noun creative is

a person directly involved in a creative marketing process.

artistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having or revealing creative skill
  • relating to or characteristic of art or artists
  • aesthetically pleasing

    • Antonyms

    * inartistic

    creative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
    • a creative dramatist who avoids cliche
  • (of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
    • a creative new solution to an old problem
  • (set theory)
    • a creative set

    Derived terms

    * creative accounting * creative differences * creative writing

    Related terms

    * creationism * creationist * creatively * creativeness * creativity

    Synonyms

    * inventive * original

    Antonyms

    * imitative (tend to model an extant thing ) * annihilative (tend to make extinct )

    Noun

  • (countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
    • He is a visionary creative .
  • (uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
    • Have you finished the creative for next week's email campaign?
    The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.
    I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.

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