Artistic freedom is the extent of freedom of an artist to produce art to his/her own insight. The extent can deviate to customs in a certain school of art, directives of the assigner, etc..
Artistic freedom should not be confused to the freedom of art (e.g. Kunstfreiheit in Germanic countries), where it is a constitutional provision to prevent political censorship. Software patents are often seen as an example of one of these restrictions.
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Artistic Creativity and the Meaning of Freedom
Mark Freeman1
Despite the fact that today's art world is thought to be a pluralistic one, ostensibly free of many of the constraints inherent in past eras, many artists feel that they are still unable to create meaningful art. Thus we encounter a paradox. Too much freedom somehow leads to too little. It is argued here, however, that because freedom means significantly more than the mere absence of constraints, there is no paradox at all; the illusion of freedom has simply been mistaken for freedom itself. With a more inclusive conception of what freedom means, both in the context of art and in that of society more generally, we may be more likely to see freedom actualized.