artistiche

Artistiche is the feminine plural form of the Italian adjective artistico. It denotes a relation to art, creativity, or aesthetics, and is used to describe feminine plural nouns. Common examples include opere artistiche (artistic works), attività artistiche (artistic activities), tradizioni artistiche (artistic traditions), and tendenze artistiche (artistic trends).

In Italian, adjective forms must agree in gender and number with the nouns they modify. Therefore artistiche is used with feminine plural nouns, while the masculine equivalents are artistici (masculine plural) and artistico/artistica (singular). The feminine singular form is artistica. This agreement rule helps distinguish, for instance, opere artistiche from opere artistici.

The term derives from Latin artisticus, based on ars, artis (art), and has been integrated into Italian through the evolution of the word for art and aesthetics. In practice, artistiche is widely used across prose, criticism, and academic writing to indicate art-related qualities or domains, including visual arts, literature, music, and performance, when paired with appropriate feminine nouns.

See also: belle arti, arti visive, arti performative, art terminology in Italian, Italian adjectives and agreement.