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art·ist
(är′tĭst)n.
1. One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts.
2. A person whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill: You are an artist in the kitchen.
3. One, such as an actor or singer, who works in the performing arts.
4. One who is adept at an activity, especially one involving trickery or deceit: a con artist.
[French artiste, from Old French, lettered person, from Medieval Latin artista, from Latin ars, art-, art; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]
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artist
(ˈɑːtɪst)n
1. (Art Terms) a person who practises or is skilled in an art, esp painting, drawing, or sculpture
2. (Art Terms) a person who displays in his work qualities required in art, such as sensibility and imagination
3. (Art Terms) a person whose profession requires artistic expertise, esp a designer: a commercial artist.
4. (Professions) a person whose profession requires artistic expertise, esp a designer: a commercial artist.
5. a person skilled in some task or occupation: an artist at bricklaying.
6. obsolete an artisan
7. slang a person devoted to or proficient in something: a booze artist; a con artist.
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art•ist
(ˈɑr tɪst)n.
1. a person who practices or is proficient in one of the fine arts, esp. painting, sculpting, or drawing.
2. a person proficient in a performing art, as an actor or musician.
3. a person who exhibits exceptional skill.
syn: artist, artisan both refer to a person capable of superior workmanship or performance. An artist is a creative person who is skilled in one of the fine or performing arts: The concert featured a famous pianist and other noted artists. An artisan is one who is skilled in a craft or applied art that requires manual dexterity: carpentry done by skilled artisans.
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| Noun | 1. |  artist - a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imaginationcreator - a person who grows or makes or invents things illustrator - an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.) classic - an artist who has created classic works classicist - an artistic person who adheres to classicism constructivist - an artist of the school of constructivism ornamentalist, decorator - someone who decorates etcher - someone who etches expressionist - an artist who is an adherent of expressionism minimalist - a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism modernist - an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles musician - artist who composes or conducts music as a profession painter - an artist who paints lensman, photographer - someone who takes photographs professionally Pre-Raphaelite - a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals graphic artist, printmaker - an artist who designs and makes prints pyrographer - an artist who practices pyrography romantic, romanticist - an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism stylist - an artist who is a master of a particular style surrealist - an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism symbolist - a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols Robert Indiana, Indiana - United States pop artist (born 1928) |
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artist
noun
2. master, expert, pro (informal), ace (informal), genius, wizard, adept, maestro, virtuoso, grandmaster, doyen, past master, dab hand (Brit. informal), wonk (informal), maven (U.S.), fundi (S. African) He's an outstanding barber, an artist with shears
Quotations
"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him" [Gustave Flaubert]
"The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art" [George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman]
"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him" [Gustave Flaubert]
"The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art" [George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman]
Artists
Agostino di Duccio (Italian), Josef Albers (German-U.S.), Leon Battista Alberti (Italian), Washington Allston (U.S.), Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch-English), Albrecht Altdorfer (German), Fra Angelico (Italian), Pietro Annigoni (Italian), Antonello da Messina (Italian), Apelles (Greek), Karel Appel (Dutch), Aleksandr Porfiryevich Archipenko (Russian), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian), Jean or Hans Arp (French), John James Audubon (U.S.), Frank Auerbach (English-German), Francis Bacon (Irish), Leon Nikolayevich Bakst (Russian), Balthus (Polish-French), Frédéric August Bartholdi (French), Fra Bartolommeo (Italian), Max Beckmann (German), Vanessa Bell (English), Giovanni Bellini (Italian), Thomas Hart Benton (U.S.), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian), Joseph Beuys (German), Peter Blake (English), William Blake (English), Umberto Boccioni (Italian), David Bomberg (English), Rosa Bonheur (French), Pierre Bonnard (French), Richard Parkes Bonnington (English), Gutzon Borglum (U.S.), Hieronymus Bosch (Dutch), Sandro Botticelli (Italian), Francois Boucher (French), Eugène Boudin (French), Arthur Boyd (Australian), Donato Bramante (Italian), Constantin Brancusi (Romanian), Georges Braque (French), Brassaï (French), Agnolo Bronzino (Italian), Ford Madox Brown (English), Jan Brueghel (Flemish), Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flemish), Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flemish), Bernard Buffet (French), Edward Burne-Jones (English), Edward Burra (English), Reg Butler (English), Alexander Calder (U.S.), Callimachus (Greek), Robert Campin (Flemish), Antonio Canova (Italian), Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian), Anthony Caro (English), Vittore Carpaccio (Italian), Agostino Carracci (Italian), Annibale Carracci (Italian), Ludovico Carracci (Italian), Mary Cassatt (U.S.), Pietro Cavallini (Italian), Benvenuto Cellini (Italian), Lynn Chadwick (English), Marc Chagall (Russian-French), Philippe de Champaigne (French), Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin (French), Giorgio de Chirico (Italian), Giovanni Cimabue (Italian), Claude Lorrain (French), François Clouet (French), Jean Clouet (French), John Constable (English), John Copley (U.S.), Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (French), Antonio Allegri da Corregio (Italian), Gustave Courbet (French), David Cox (English), Antoine Coypel (French), Lucas Cranach (German), Walter Crane (English), John Crome (English), Aelbert Cuyp or Kuyp (Dutch), Paul Cézanne (French), Richard Dadd (English), Salvador Dalí (Spanish), Francis Danby (Irish), Charles François Daubigny (French), Honoré Daumier (French), Jacques Louis David (French), Peter de Wint (English), Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French), Eugène Delacroix (French), Paul Delaroche (French), Robert Delaunay (French), Paul Delvaux (Belgian), Maurice Denis (French), André Derain (French), William Dobell (Australian), Domenichino (Italian), Domenico del Barbiere (Italian), Donatello (Italian), Gerrit Dou (Dutch), George Russell Drysdale (Australian), Jean Dubuffet (French), Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian), Marcel Duchamp (French-U.S.), Raoul Dufy (French), Albrecht Dürer (German), Thomas Eakins (U.S.), El Greco (Greek-Spanish), James Ensor (Belgian), Jacob Epstein (British), Max Ernst (German), Henri Fantin-Latour (French), Lyonel Feininger (U.S.), John Flaxman (English), Jean Fouquet (French), Jean Honoré Fragonard (French), Lucian Freud (English), Caspar David Friedrich (German), Roger Fry (English), Henry Fuseli (Swiss), Naum Gabo (Russian-U.S.), Thomas Gainsborough (English), Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (French), Paul Gauguin (French), Gentile da Fabriano (Italian), Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian), Domenico Ghirlandaio (Italian), Alberto Giacometti (Swiss), Giambologna (Italian), Grinling Gibbons (Dutch), Gilbert (Proesch) and George (Passmore) (English), Eric Gill (English), Giorgione da Castelfranco (Italian), Giotto di Bondone (Italian), Giulio Romano (Italian), Hugo van der Goes (Flemish), Julio González (Spanish), Arshile Gorky (U.S.), Francisco de Goya (Spanish), Jan van Goyen (Dutch), Duncan Grant (Scottish), Jean Baptiste Greuze (French), Juan Gris (Spanish), Antoine Jean Gros (French), George Grosz (German-U.S.), Grünewald (German), Francesco Guardi (Italian), François Gérard (French), Théodore Géricault (French), Frans Hals (Dutch), Richard Hamilton (English), Ando Hiroshige (Japanese), Damien Hirst (English), Meindert Hobbema (Dutch), David Hockney (English), Hans Hofmann (German-U.S.), William Hogarth (English), Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese), Hans Holbein (German), Winslow Homer (U.S.), Pieter de Hooch or Hoogh (Dutch), Edward Hopper (U.S.), Jean Antoine Houdon (French), William Holman Hunt (English), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French), Augustus John (Welsh), Gwen John (Welsh), Jasper Johns (U.S.), Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch), Jacob Jordaens (Flemish), Wassily Kandinsky (Russian), Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German), Ron B. 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Translations
فَنَّانفَنَّان، رَسَّام، نَحَّاتمُغَنِّي، مُطْرِب، راقِص
umělecestrádní umělec
kunstnerartist
taiteilijaartisti
umjetnikumjetnica
művész
seniman
listamaîur
芸術家
예술가
artistasgabus menuimeną mylintismenininkasmeniškai
mākslinieks
estrádny umelecumelec
umetnikumetnica
konstnär
ศิลปิน
nghệ sĩ
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[ˈɑːrtɪst] nCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
artist
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artist
(ˈaːtist) noun1. a person who paints pictures or is a sculptor or is skilled at one of the other arts.
2. a singer, dancer, actor etc; an artiste. He announced the names of the artists who were taking part in the show.
arˈtistic adjective1. liking or skilled in painting, music etc. She draws and paints – she's very artistic.
2. created or done with skill and good taste. That flower-arrangement looks very artistic.
arˈtistically adverbˈartistry noun
artistic skill. the musician's artistry.
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artist
→ فَنَّان umělec kunstner Künstler καλλιτέχνης artista taiteilija artiste umjetnik artista 芸術家 예술가 artiest kunstner artysta artista художник konstnär ศิลปิน sanatçı nghệ sĩ 艺术家Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009