The phrase "artistic search" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process of exploring or seeking out artistic expression, ideas, or inspiration.
Example: "The artist embarked on an artistic search, experimenting with different mediums and styles to find her unique voice."
Alternatives: "creative exploration" or "artistic quest".
Whatever the social value of Mr. Rollins's project, one fears that the paintings are more the product of a well-polished pedagogical routine than of artistic search and discovery.
In Paris, he was influenced by fauvism, the avant-garde art movement promoting a strong, emotional, and nonrealistic use of color, and by his friend the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, known for his artistic search of pure form.
It was a lesson his father might have passed along to Ravi: artistic searching sometimes leaves collaborators in its wake.
My artistic soul searched.
What followed was perhaps a classic story of artistic soul-searching and personal re-evaluation.
In my first two days this year, I saw major West End and Broadway producers and an off-Broadway artistic director searching for the next big thing.
"Our beloved Tim was a seeker, a fragile artistic soul searching for answers to existential questions.
In her catalog essay for "Altered States," the 2007 retrospective at Asia Society, Melissa Chiu, the museum's director, wrote, "Zhang Huan's works from the past 15 years reflect one artist's search for an artistic voice, first in Beijing, then in New York, and finally in Shanghai".
And Hemingway's notes to himself from Cuba show a parallel artistic imperative: the search for blunt, descriptive, concise prose.
Even as the company celebrates Judith Jamison's 20th anniversary as artistic director, the search is on for her successor.
In his 1884 essay "The Art of Fiction," one of the first and probably still the best assertion of the novel's status as high art, James noted that "literature should be either instructive or amusing, and there is in many minds an impression that … artistic preoccupations, the search for form, contribute to neither end, interfere indeed with both".
