Generally, creative writing and the arts get associated with NF. The Strong Inventory's Artistic theme tends to relate to creative writing, journalism, the fine arts and art and design. However, statistically, there does not seem to be a strong correlation between Artistic and F, but rather the strongest correlation seems to be N, followed by P. In this article, the authors account past research correlating MBTI and the Strong, then present their own research.
Here are the artistic results correlated with the MBTI from the earlier version of the strong:
Tuel & Betz (1998) N
Myers et al (1998) N
Myers et al (1998) NFP
Healy (2000)NP
As you can see, Myers did two studies in 1998. One showed only intuition, the other showed N, F and P. However, the F findings were not replicated in the other studies. The sample sizes ranged from 180 (Tuel & Betz) to 370 (Healy).
The authors presented their research, based on samples of students, full time employees and part time employees totaling 4,722 people. Artistic was only statistically significant on N. Thinking corresponded with Realistic and Investigative. Enterprising corresponded with Extraversion. Social corresponded with E and F, whereas Conventional corresponded to S, T and J.
For some reason, CPP tries to attribute Artistic to NF, but the majority of the research doesn't bear that out. As you can see, they have not managed to replicate the NF association to Artistic that they found in one of their studies. I suspect this is because the original description of NF attributed a tendency towards creative expression (especially through writing) and the humanities, and so the one set of results that indicated NFP is consistent with their theory. However, the overall data suggests that Artistic is merely related to N, and possibly P. If you look at the type breakdown from their own handout, every one with Artistic has either N or P in common. Take a look at the following types that have Artistic among the three most common Strong results:
INFJ:N is the preference in common with the results
ISFP: Note the P preference
INFP: N and P
INTP: N and P
ESFP: P
ENFP: N and P
ENTP: N and P
ENFJ: N
ENTJ: N
A couple of things are worth noting. The first is that the only NT type not represented here is INTJ. (In fact, of all the N types, INTJ is the only one that is not well represented in the artistic theme.) It's also interesting that SFPs are the only S types represented. STPs are not, but neither are SFJs. An important consideration may not be so much what someone is interested in, but why they do it and where they are inspired. (The MBTI does, after all, repeatedly assert that it is not speaking about traits but rather preferences.) Some abstract artists, for example, can be highly logical in their combination of shapes to form a coherent design whose message is more conceptual than personal. A hyper-realistic landscape artist may actively engage their senses, while others may paint scenes that are very social in nature. Within that, are different motives and approaches. I know, for example, artists that approach it (and teach it) as essentially problem solving, whereas others see drawing as "the art of accurate seeing" and even others advise abandonment of inhibitions and not conceiving of the process as depicting a specific object. Artists may, then, vary in orientation and motivation. It's only when NF values come into play (art therapy is one example. Political art is another.) that one can ascribe it to that type cluster.
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