The phrase 'subject of art' is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence like this: 'The female figure is a popular subject of art throughout history.'.
GREAT beauties have always been the subject of art.
For he has not forgotten that human beings are the basic subject of art.
It was Fitzgerald's genius to make this predicament into a subject of art.
The subject of art, Faulkner said in his 1949 Nobel Prize speech, is "the human heart in conflict with itself".
By the late 50s, in Britain and in the US, photography was becoming the subject of art.
"As I contemplated it, it was such a simple image, yet like all his work it is about the bigger subject of art and creativity," Mr. Govan said.
Modern art didn't abandon the world, but it made art-making part of the subject matter of art.
Yet rings have rarely been the subject of art-museum exhibitions.
The delay is not unusual when it comes to Chinese Buddhist sculpture, a relatively young subject of art-historical study when measured against the centuries of attention lavished on Chinese painting and calligraphy.
GPs prescribing arts activities to some patients could lead to a dramatic fall in hospital admissions and save the NHS money, according to a report into the subject of arts, health and wellbeing published after two years of evidence gathering.
The survey sample -- 17,135 people -- makes it one of the largest studies ever conducted on the subject of arts participation, and the data were compared with similar studies from 1982 and 1992.
