The phrase "artistic acquaintances" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people you know in the art community or those with whom you share a creative connection.
Example: "At the gallery opening, I was thrilled to reconnect with some of my artistic acquaintances from art school."
Alternatives: "creative contacts" or "artistic connections".
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?).
Wilde worked hard to solicit good contributions from his wide artistic acquaintance, including those of Lady Wilde and his wife Constance, while his own "Literary and Other Notes" were themselves popular and amusing.
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.
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.
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.
Although he had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the Parisian artistic world, including Eugène Delacroix and George Sand, from 1848 he began to adopt a reclusive life style, while continuing with his compositions, virtually all of which are for the keyboard.
The new acquaintances of the wealthy artist were only too happy to chaperone him in his exploration of the Montmartre artistic milieu.
Though they were friends and school acquaintances of the YBAs, these young artists, like Higgs, were interested in alternative modes of artistic recognition.
