artist
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
artist/ˈɑːtɪst/
▶noun
- 1 a person who creates paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby.
■ a person who practises or performs any of the creative arts.
- 2 informal a habitual practitioner of a specified activity: a con artist.
– derivatives
artistry noun.
artistry noun.
– origin C16: from Fr. artiste, from Ital. artista, from arte ‘art’, from L. ars, art-.
'artist' also found in these Oxford entries:
A & R
- aesthetic
- airbrush
- appreciation
- artiste
- back catalogue
- Bewick's swan
- Bohemian
- canon
- catlinite
- colourist
- cover
- cross
- derivative
- donkey
- draughtsman
- drawing board
- earn
- easel
- engagé
- executant
- expressionism
- facture
- foley
- future
- Gibson girl
- gold disc
- graphic arts
- Houdini
- humorist
- juvenilia
- leotard
- licence
- lyricism
- magnum opus
- martial arts
- master
- medium
- model
- moral rights
- multi-platinum
- muse
- objet trouvé
- oeuvre
- old master
- original
- orpiment
- painter
- palette
