The phrase "artistic acquaintance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person you know in an artistic context or someone with whom you share a mutual interest in the arts.
Example: "During the gallery opening, I had the pleasure of meeting an artistic acquaintance who shared my passion for contemporary art."
Alternatives: "artistic connection" or "creative associate".
By night, he consorted with Cage's remarkable network of artistic acquaintances, the painters and the poets and the artists without portfolio.
Most of the drawings in the show, and the most memorable of them, were done from life — whether of one or another of the artist's assistants or of an unidentified model (and it's fascinating to imagine where, for instance, the model for an astonishingly modest Christ of the people, immortalized in black chalk, was found — among Bronzino's artistic acquaintances? among tradesmen in the marketplace?).
Additional images include four unrecorded portraits by Lewis Carroll of Acland and her brothers shed light on the work of her contemporaries, including acquaintances and artistic influences like Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron.
An acquaintance with the artistic conventions and idioms in which the artist operated often leads to better understanding of certain aspects of his work and helps to avert misunderstandings of it.
So began a mode of life that continued for a decade or more — a quiet bachelor existence in Vienna interspersed with sojourns abroad, making the acquaintance of important artistic figures of the day.
Ellison was excited by the prospect, and, after enlisting the photographer Gordon Parks—an acquaintance from Harlem artistic and intellectual circles—he accepted the assignment, though the magazine would go out of business before the photo essay could be published.
Ellison was excited by the prospect, and, after enlisting the photographer Gordon Parks — an acquaintance from Harlem artistic and intellectual circles — he accepted the assignment, though the magazine would go out of business before the photo essay could be published.
A couple of years later appeared his even more outrageous series of pen portraits of friends and acquaintances from the artistic and literary worlds entitled "Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters".With these entertainments behind him, Mr Richardson has reverted to the more serious business of biography, though always with a keen eye for pretension and a delight in human eccentricity and folly.
It is a comedy about four egocentric members of an artistic family who casually invite acquaintances to their country house for the weekend and bemuse and enrage each other's guests.
In London, she and her sisters extended their range of acquaintances into literary and artistic circles; among their new friends were the writer George MacDonald and the Pre-Raphaelites William and Jane Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.
