"artistic consciousness" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It describes someone's awareness and appreciation of art, and typically refers to the ability to judge and create art. For example: The artist had a deep artistic consciousness, evident in her creative and imaginative artwork.
On top of the Hood by Air-MoMA collaboration, this kind of new artistic consciousness is exemplified in the work of artist Rashaad Newsome, a 35-year-old New Orleans born visual artist who uses hip-hop to explore symbols of status and power.
Classic King: a maimed artistic consciousness, a symbolic journey.
In "Funny People" (which I reviewed at the time of its DVD release), Apatow divides his artistic consciousness into three representative characters.
"As a result of this shift, a new global artistic consciousness is emerging with its own unique set of characteristics," he continued.
Even in those regions where Indian influence became strongly entrenched, the layers of more ancient religion and artistic consciousness remained very much alive.
The mark of personality that gets affixed to a work, the name or names of its creators, is no banner but the very mark of artistic consciousness.
Bosanquet's work in aesthetics focused on four principal issues: i) the nature and evolution of aesthetic consciousness, ii) artistic production, iii) aesthetic appreciation particularly, the experience of beauty, ugliness, and the sublime in art, and iv) the role of art in the development of character.
In other words "Alexis" is shaped by artistic self-consciousness, an often annoying trait associated with young and defiant intellectuals.
Intellectuals take pleasure in celebrating Davis, an actress defined by her theatre-based methods, artistic self-consciousness, and affinity for literary material.
The Beatles added to this an artistic self-consciousness, soon writing their own songs and using the recording studio to develop their own rather than a commercial producer's musical ideas.
"Yard Gal" (a glossary included with the program says the nearest American equivalent for the term is "Hoochie Mama") begins with deliberate artistic self-consciousness, with the two girls egging each other on to tell their story from the stage.
