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ARTIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("artist" is a kind of...):
creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artist"):
Indiana; Robert Indiana (United States pop artist (born 1928))
symbolist (a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols)
surrealist (an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism)
stylist (an artist who is a master of a particular style)
carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker (an artist who creates sculptures)
romantic; romanticist (an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism)
pyrographer (an artist who practices pyrography)
graphic artist; printmaker (an artist who designs and makes prints)
Pre-Raphaelite (a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals)
lensman; photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)
painter (an artist who paints)
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)
decorator; ornamentalist (someone who decorates)
draftsman; drawer (an artist skilled at drawing)
etcher (someone who etches)
expressionist (an artist who is an adherent of expressionism)
maestro; master (an artist of consummate skill)
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)
Instance hyponyms:
Arp; Hans Arp; Jean Arp (Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966))
Audubon; John James Audubon (United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851))
Duchamp; Marcel Duchamp (French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968))
Al Hirschfeld; Hirschfeld (United States artist noted for his line-drawn caricatures (1904-2003))
Jasper Johns; Johns (United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930))
Edward Lear; Lear (British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888))
Louis Comfort Tiffany; Tiffany (United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933))
Derivation:
art (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)
art (a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation)
art (photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication)
artistic (satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities)
artistic (relating to or characteristic of art or artists)
Context examples:
Creations of the mind, such as those created by musicians, authors, artists, and inventors.
(Intellectual Property, NCI Thesaurus)
That pretence I have carried out with the thoroughness of the true artist.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There he was—perhaps the very specimen which the American artist had encountered.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These boots, an old foil, and a slashed doublet once used by an artist for some picture, were Jo's chief treasures and appeared on all occasions.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The sitting began; and Harriet, smiling and blushing, and afraid of not keeping her attitude and countenance, presented a very sweet mixture of youthful expression to the steady eyes of the artist.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Your pleasures, by your own account, have been few; but I daresay you did exist in a kind of artist's dreamland while you blent and arranged these strange tints.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The hypar origami form, with its sweeping opposing arcs and saddle shape, has long been popular with artists working in the paper-folding tradition.
(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)
But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favourite employment.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He met with a clever young German artist at the Cape, and in compliance with a promise to my poor sister, sat to him, and was bringing it home for her; and I have now the charge of getting it properly set for another!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But, his joy received a sudden check; for within five minutes, he returned in the custody of a sheriff “s officer, informing us, in a flood of tears, that all was lost. We, being quite prepared for this event, which was of course a proceeding of Uriah Heep's, soon paid the money; and in five minutes more Mr. Micawber was seated at the table, filling up the stamps with an expression of perfect joy, which only that congenial employment, or the making of punch, could impart in full completeness to his shining face. To see him at work on the stamps, with the relish of an artist, touching them like pictures, looking at them sideways, taking weighty notes of dates and amounts in his pocket-book, and contemplating them when finished, with a high sense of their precious value, was a sight indeed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
