The phrase "artistic block" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a person is unable to create or express their artistic ideas, often due to a lack of inspiration or motivation.
Example: "After weeks of struggling with artistic block, she finally found the inspiration she needed to complete her painting."
Alternatives: "creative block" or "inspiration block".
His narrator is a painter (convincingly played by Christopher Coucill) struggling with an artistic block: even though he saw the World Trade Center attacks through his studio window, he cannot translate the event to canvas.
"In the case of Degas, his fame was such that even if they were not completed, they were still sold as worthy examples". Another reason is artistic block.
Hughes said that initially he based his work on the music, which caused "artistic block".
A stellar example of the Midcentury Modern style, the single-story house sits up from the street and has wood siding and an artistic block wall that create visual interest along the front.
He battles with drink and crippling artistic blocks, but he survived the incident, and Peter seeks him out to hear his story.
Plummer Fernandez wants his artistic housing block, titled Token Homes, to be seen as a comment on the way many homes are built and bought firstly as investments, rather than to live in.
"Certain events, by their magnitude, even their incomprehensibility, sometimes block artistic imagination," he said.
For this pivotal first exhibition, Firestone chose to display works by an artist who, like the block's artistic past, was fading into the annals of history.
The artistic creation was blocked by Figueres' city council, led by the Catalan party Convergence and Union, whose members expressed concern that it would needlessly pick at the wounds of Spain's bloody past.
But a decade ago, legal and financial problems caused an artistic paralysis that blocked Fogerty from making any new records for nine years.
Constructed with dazzling verve, it tells the story of Bradley Pearson, an ageing writer with a troublesome block, whose artistic peace of mind is overshadowed by the trials of his friends, Arnold and Rachel Baffin.
