The phrase "artistic calling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong inclination or vocation towards artistic pursuits or creativity.
Example: "After years of working in finance, she finally decided to pursue her artistic calling and became a painter."
Alternatives: "creative vocation" or "artistic vocation".
There she tries to fight her artistic calling.
The transformation of Jewish comedians into foundlings reanimated by a Catholic outlook is, in effect, the Farrelly brothers' artistic calling.
He was at once a sensualist and an ascetic: he wanted to submit to discipline, but couldn't deny his artistic calling.
As Richard Hudson, a used-car dealer in 1960's Los Angeles, he's a ruthless manipulator who suddenly discovers his artistic calling.
He wasn't really the business type, she mused; perhaps he should have remained in California and pursued his artistic calling instead of moving to New York to try his hand at the stock market.
Mr. Mercer's artistic calling appeared after his retirement at the age of 62.
One possibility, I think, is that some of the reasons for Heidi's unhappiness are not age-specific or era-specific as much as they are gender-specific and the product of a certain temperament that Wasserstein and I share: call it melancholic, call it artistic, call it the thing that makes you feel gray next to the bouncy people at your gym.
Sixty Spanish and international artists are participating in C.A.L.L.E, the third Emerging Lavapiés Free Artistic Call Festival, between May 14 and June 5.
Yet it was also the right artistic call.
He made Munich a centre of Germany's intellectual and artistic life, calling many notable scholars to the Bavarian capital.
The same charge, of course, has been levelled against other and greater writers; in 1592, for example, the playwright and pamphleteer Robert Greene accused Shakespeare of artistic thievery, calling him an "upstart crow, beautified with our feathers".
