"artistic materials" is correct and usable in written English.
The phrase can be used to refer to any physical material used to create a work of art, such as paint, clay, or paper. For example, "The art museum holds a variety of artistic materials for visitors to use in an interactive art area."
Trevor Paglen is a 43-year-old, Berlin-based conceptual artist and geographer who uses public records and declassified documents as artistic materials, exposing the alarming grip military and corporate power possess in today's climate of mass surveillance.
Prune Nourry is a multi-disciplinary artist who finds pleasure in contradiction, whether in bioethics, mythology or even artistic materials.
Ms. Henríquez's seawater ice cream is a good example of her use of nontraditional artistic materials.
Sehgal's artistic materials are time and attention – moments of choreographed togetherness with people, and what luxurious materials these are.
During the second world war, Duchamp devised a scheme to transport his artistic materials out of Europe.
Soluble salts contaminating limestones and marbles used as building and artistic materials play a relevant role in the deterioration processes of the substrates.
From a purely selfish standpoint as artists, it's such a cornucopia of artistic material.
It does so, on the one hand, by postulating ever more complex objects as candidates for the status of 'artwork', and, on the other hand, by distancing the task of the artist from the actual making and manipulating of the artistic material.
When Palestine started amassing stuffed animals in the 1960s, he was doing so before artists like Andy Warhol, Mike Kelley and Jeff Koons popularized the consumer good, or readymade, as an artistic material.
The artistic material generated in the preceding months was as tailored as it was vast.
One that shows the king bareheaded achieves a soft immediacy unlike any other artistic material.
