The phrase "artists rejected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where artists have been turned down or not accepted for a particular opportunity, such as a competition or exhibition.
Example: "The gallery received numerous submissions, but unfortunately, many artists were rejected due to the high standards set for the exhibition."
Alternatives: "artists turned away" or "artists declined".
After the Second World War, American artists rejected the European past and took to Abstract Expressionism.
In the aftermath of the First World War, many European artists rejected experimentation in favor of a more neoclassical approach.
The founding artists rejected the male-oriented hierarchy of the art world and championed collaboration and accessibility.
Some artists rejected the post-rock label, while others cheerfully embraced a genre that included such influential acts as Stereolab, Tortoise, and the Sea and Cake.
These artists rejected the decaying industrial England they saw around them in favor of a simpler pastoral one that enlivened their yearnings with mysticism, (really) retro clothing and mannered vocalizing.
Art, at least since 1863 and the Salon des Refusés, where artists rejected by the Emperor's gallery showed their work to adoring crowds, isn't supposed to be beholden to academic or bourgeois values, or idées reçues.
For their part, the present crop of Muslim artists reject simplistic ideas about the east and west and are also questioning what seems to them a senseless disengagement with anything western.
Mr. Grohl, the drummer in the seminal grunge band Nirvana who is now the leader of Foo Fighters, gave a punk-rock twist on some well-worn advice to artists: reject mainstream conventions, practice until it hurts, find your individual voice and follow it wherever it leads you.
Some proposals inevitably go beyond the feasible, and the American artist rejected this initial, startling idea.
It fits well with his self-image: the misunderstood artist rejected by all, rather than the internationally acclaimed, bestselling novelist.
Bleeding and bruised, the artist rejected medical care and returned to the site of the shelling to look for more victims buried under the rubble.
