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The definition of an '''artist''' is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of [[activities]] to do with creating [[art]], practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. Debate, both historical and present day, suggests that defining the concept of an artist will continue to be difficult. | The definition of an '''artist''' is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of [[activities]] to do with creating [[art]], practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. Debate, both historical and present day, suggests that defining the concept of an artist will continue to be difficult. | ||
+ | ==The present day concept of an 'artist'== | ||
+ | ''Artist'' is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist also may be defined unofficially as "a person who expresses him- or herself through a medium". The word is also used in a qualitative sense of, a person [[creativity|creative]] in, [[innovation|innovative]] in, or adept at, an artistic practice. | ||
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+ | Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or '[[high culture]]', activities such as [[drawing]], [[painting]], [[sculpture]], [[acting]], [[dancing]], [[writing]], [[filmmaking]], [[photography]], and [[music]]—people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an [[aesthetic]] value. [[Art history|Art historians]] and [[Art critic|critics]] define artists as those who produce art within a recognized or recognizable discipline. Contrasting terms for highly-skilled workers in media in the [[applied arts]] or [[decorative arts]] include [[artisan]], [[Master craftsman|craftsman]], and specialized terms such as [[potter]], [[goldsmith]] or [[glassblower]]. Fine arts artists such as painters succeeded in the [[Renaissance]] in raising their status, formerly similar to these workers, to a decisively higher level, but in the 20th century the distinction became rather less relevant {{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}. | ||
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+ | The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non-"art" activities, as well— law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example. | ||
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+ | Often, discussions on the subject focus on the differences among "artist" and "[[technician]]", "[[entertainer]]" and "[[artisan]]", "[[fine arts|fine art]]" and "[[applied art]]", or what constitutes art and what does not. The [[French language|French]] word ''artiste'' (which in French, simply means "artist") has been imported into the [[English language]] where it means a performer (frequently in [[Music Hall]] or [[Vaudeville]]). Use of the word "artiste" can also be a pejorative term. | ||
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+ | The English word 'artiste' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word 'artiste' in French. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Patronage]] | * [[Patronage]] |
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The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. Debate, both historical and present day, suggests that defining the concept of an artist will continue to be difficult.
The present day concept of an 'artist'
Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist also may be defined unofficially as "a person who expresses him- or herself through a medium". The word is also used in a qualitative sense of, a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or 'high culture', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music—people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics define artists as those who produce art within a recognized or recognizable discipline. Contrasting terms for highly-skilled workers in media in the applied arts or decorative arts include artisan, craftsman, and specialized terms such as potter, goldsmith or glassblower. Fine arts artists such as painters succeeded in the Renaissance in raising their status, formerly similar to these workers, to a decisively higher level, but in the 20th century the distinction became rather less relevant Template:Citation needed.
The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non-"art" activities, as well— law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.
Often, discussions on the subject focus on the differences among "artist" and "technician", "entertainer" and "artisan", "fine art" and "applied art", or what constitutes art and what does not. The French word artiste (which in French, simply means "artist") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer (frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville). Use of the word "artiste" can also be a pejorative term.
The English word 'artiste' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word 'artiste' in French.
See also
Examples of art and artists
- Abstract Art: Wassily Kandinsky
- Abstract expressionism: Jackson Pollock
- Actress: Greta Garbo
- Animation: Walt Disney
- Appropriation artist: Marcel Duchamp
- Architect: I.M. Pei
- Art Deco: Erté
- Art Nouveau: Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Ballet: Margot Fonteyn
- Baroque Art: Caravaggio
- BioArt: Hunter Cole
- Calligraphy: Rudolf Koch
- Ceramic art: Grayson Perry
- Choreographer: Martha Graham
- Collage: Joseph Cornell
- Colorist: Josef Albers
- Comics: Will Eisner
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Conceptual art: Sol LeWitt
- Cubism: Pablo Picasso
- Dada: Man Ray
- Dancer: Isadora Duncan
- Designer: Arne Jacobsen
- Digital art: David Em
- Doll Maker: Greer Lankton
- Expressionism: Edvard Munch
- Fashion designer: Yves Saint Laurent
- Fauvist: Henri Matisse
- Fluxus: George Maciunas
- Fumage: Burhan Dogancay
- Game designer: Peter Molyneux
- Geometric abstraction: Piet Mondrian
- Genius: Leonardo da Vinci
- Graphic designer: Milton Glaser
- Horticulture: André le Nôtre
- Illustrator: Quentin Blake
- Impressionist: Claude Monet
- Industrial designer: Frank Lloyd Wright
- Installation art: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Jewelry: Fabergé
- Landscape architect: Frederick Law Olmsted
- Minimalist artist: Donald Judd
- Mosaics: Elaine M Goodwin
- Movie director: Andrei Tarkovsky
- Muralist: Diego Rivera
- Musical instrument maker: Stradivari
- Musician: John Lennon
- Novelist: Charles Dickens
- Op Art; Bridget Riley
- Orator: Cicero
- Outsider artist: Howard Finster
- Painter: Rembrandt van Rijn
- Performance Art: Carolee Schneemann
- Photographer: Ansel Adams
- Pianist: Glenn Gould
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Poet: Pablo Neruda
- Pointillism: Georges Seurat
- Pop Art: Andy Warhol
- Poster-maker: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Post-Impressionism: Vincent van Gogh
- Potter: Bernard Leach
- Printmaker: Albrecht Dürer
- Renaissance art: Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Rococo: Antoine Watteau
- Sculptor: Auguste Rodin
- Singer: Maria Callas
- Songwriter: Bob Dylan
- Street Art: Banksy
- Surrealism: Salvador Dalí
- Typographer: Eric Gill
- Ukiyo-e: Hokusai