The phrase "art milieu" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the environment or setting in which art is created or appreciated, often encompassing the cultural and social context.
Example: "The gallery's opening night attracted a diverse crowd, reflecting the vibrant art milieu of the city."
Alternatives: "art scene" or "art environment".
Sheila was 17, English, & very concerned to seem knowledgeable about the Left-Bank art milieu & be properly sophisticated.
Faucher's first team of illustrators consisted primarily of Russian expatriate artists — Nathalie Parain, Alexandra Exter, Hélène Guertik, and Rojankovsky, all of whom had adopted the forms and techniques of the avant-garde, constructivism, and Cubo-Futurism which had been their common experience in the Russian art milieu in the early 1900s.
Though the judge was disgusted by what the proceedings had revealed about the international fine art milieu, "a world of self-proclaimed royalty full of 'blacklists', 'greylists' and astonishing chicanery", he could find no evidence of a binding guarantee of confidentiality, nor of any breach of contract or agreement.
Modern artists, they saw, innovate by breaking fixed barriers between popular entertainment and avant-garde experiment, creating a dynamic, circular exchange of forms and meanings, with what begins in a popular idiom altered in an art milieu, only to return to its original realm, transformed.
There, Golden cataloged the papers of 20th century painter and collagist Benny Andrews, who had kept diligent record of the black art milieu.
It's an amulet made from a rock and adorned with mysterious Hebrew lettering by the late artist Wallace Berman, whose Semina magazine both chronicled and captured the nascent postwar LA art milieu during the 1950s, defining the SoCal visual-arts scene ever since.
"He's got this rigor about his performance that felt related to the '60s and '70s performance-art milieu of putting someone in a box".
Upon graduation, rather than pursue a traditional career with his degree, John immersed himself in New York's Lower East side arts milieu, absorbing his artistic education through the area's active community.
This can't but have a positive effect both on the arts milieu - in that more ideas and opinions are now circulating - and on criticism itself, because it encourages critics to be absolutely on our game as we assert and then discuss our points of view.
Then, the bubble of Christian's art-world milieu is pierced again — by a nonwhite boy from the housing project who got into trouble with his father because of the flyer and needs Christian to vouch for him.
With cinematography by Christian Berger, DP for numerous Michael Haneke pictures, and a lush score by Gabriel Yared that, at times, spikes the movie with menace (perfect for Jolie) and the music by the likes of Jacques Dutronc and Serge Gainsbourg, the picture places these American movie stars in a decidedly European art-house milieu.
