Also known as "Creative Reach Algrorithmic Paradigm", or "CRAP", it is the process of an artist progressively moving further away from their artwork. The concept was coined by AustralianYouTuber Draw With Jazza
"I started using the Creative Reach ArtisticParadigm strategy to imorove my art skills, and it's really working."
"In order to successfully achieve the Creative Reach Artistic Paradigm, one should use a pole with a sharpie on the end of it"
"The CRAP is crap"
describes the freedoms artists (or writers, film makers, etc) take with the facts in the process of creating; disregarding facts for the sake of the art
When a book is made into a movie and parts are left out or changes are made -- the film makers are using artistic licence
The movie Titanic - the sinking of the Titanic is a real event in history but the characters in the movie are fictional. The writer took a real event and used artistic licence to create a story.
A favored term of filmmakers who create films based on or around a historical event/person/era that holds little historical accuracy, usually for the sake of making the film seem more interesting than the reality it's based on, and by extension, possibly drawing in larger crowds and making more money at the box office.
Such extensive artistic liberties were taken with Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" that it was booed at Cannes.
When George Hickenlooper was questioned as to why his '06 film, "Factory Girl", had been panned so severely by Warhol scholars, he spoke of his artistic liberties taken with the film.