The phrase "artistic preoccupations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the themes, interests, or concerns that occupy an artist's mind or work.
Example: "The exhibition showcased various artists and their unique artistic preoccupations, highlighting the diverse influences that shape their creations."
Alternatives: "creative concerns" or "artistic interests".
Nonetheless, a choreographer is this year's "associate artist" — a creative figure who, in theory, contributes his vision and artistic preoccupations to the festival.
Throughout his life, wherever he lived, Mexico was the centre of Fuentes's artistic preoccupations.
Tyson's artistic preoccupations include mathematical models, gambling, the operations of chance, and the systems, random or otherwise, governing human history.
Experimentation will provoke students to work in new and unpredictable ways, as well as enable them to discover and develop their own artistic preoccupations.
Taken together, they provide us with something of an inventory of Mr. Percy's intellectual and artistic preoccupations over the last two decades and acquaint us with the character and the life of the man behind the works.
It seems to have sprung fully formed from the fields and riverbanks of Iowa, where her childhood ended; yet it was shaped by the sophisticated artistic preoccupations of the 1970's generation.
Mr Thackara's principal artistic preoccupation is a moral one.
Either way, the arrangement depended on trust and his belief in the repertory principle: he always preferred to work with people he knew, believing that a craving for "new faces" was a journalistic rather than artistic preoccupation.
Through Dec. 7 Donald Judd once wrote that an artist's main challenge is to find "the concatenation that will grow" — in other words, an artistic preoccupation that will sustain a lifetime of development, not peter out by the third or even second show.
Still as lithe and buoyant as the fashion-mad, Catholic-raised boy he was when he came down from Boston in the late nineteen-forties, Cunningham radiates, by turns, a nearly magnanimous beneficence, artistic preoccupation, and a non-judgmental interest in women and "feminine fashions" that puts most neurotic and self-important fashion toilers to shame.
It took me a while to realize that every kind of artistic preoccupation had its own conditions and conventions.
