The phrase "artistic inquiry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to exploring or investigating artistic practices, concepts, or expressions.
Example: "The workshop focused on artistic inquiry, encouraging participants to explore their creative processes and question traditional methods."
Alternatives: "creative exploration" or "artistic investigation".
But there is another school of criticism, generally referred to as formalism, that says painting about painting is a valid avenue of artistic inquiry.
The awakening of a new spirit of intellectual and artistic inquiry, which was the dominant feature of this political, religious, and philosophical phenomenon, was essentially a revival of the spirit of ancient Greece and Rome; in literature this meant a new interest in and analysis of the great classical writers.
This is central to artistic inquiry, regardless of the medium or subject matter.
Student perspectives will be framed through an artistic inquiry coming directly from the students and their interpretations of space, place, and community.
The Brotherhood has also signed a declaration put forward by Al Azhar, a moderate center of Sunni Islamic learning here, that would protect broad freedoms for religious observance, artistic expression, scientific inquiry, theological dissent and civil society groups.
For Anderson ethical goods exist in the world in such activities as intellectual inquiry, artistic production and scientific investigation.
More than just an original form of philosophical analysis, the diary illustrates Marcel's own conception of the true self as a gradual awakening to the "appeal" of being through the combined practices of ontological inquiry, artistic creation and personal engagement.
It's often said that artistic work and scientific inquiry are similar.
According to them, there are no real differences between metaphysical inquiry and artistic practice: both are ways of revealing to human beings their own freedom and responsibility.
Scientific inquiry and abstract artistic expression may have more in common than you think.
The Holocaust has been approached from so many angles of scholarly inquiry and at so many artistic levels — from Anne Frank to Primo Levi, from Claude Lanzmann to Steven Spielberg — that it is impossible to plead ignorance, except willfully.
