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/ˈɑrtəst/ /ˈɑrtɪst/ Listen

noun

Artist n.

One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. (Obs.) "How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their."

One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution. Note: The term is particularly applied to painters, sculptors, musicians, engravers, and architects.

One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.

An artful person; a schemer. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Artisan. See Artisan.

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Etymology of 'Artist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Artist" Quotes from Famous Books

... to one of the old portraits in the room—a picture fairly painted by some provincial artist—and it revealed a handsome face, a little voluptuous but aristocratic, the shoulders clad in a martial cloak, the neck in ruffles and ruffles, also and a diamond in the shirt bosom. Reybold studied it with ...

— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend

... between the eyes and the smile, without which it was evident that you had not Baruch. The extraordinary concentration in the forehead was easy enough to transfer to clay; but the smile kept defying the artist. When a smile was traced in the clay it softened the face out of character, destroyed that intensity which the central massing of the brow denoted; and when the smile was deleted the face lost all its brilliance, ...

— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous

... young archers pledging each other at banquet tables and seeming to welcome the visitor with jovial smiles as he enters the chamber, or of serene old ladies, "regents" of hospitals, seated at their council boards. The immense power of the artist is shown in nothing so much as in the hands, often gloved, dashed in with instantaneous power, yet always having the effect of the most consummate finish at a distance. Behind one of the pictures ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various

... moment a vision of the radiance of youth. Maurice was so struck by her beauty that he drew a little sketch, and resolved to do her portrait, just as she was at that moment. No love entered into this admiration; he saw as a painter, he dreamed as an artist! Jean Perliez looked at the sketch, then at the model, and was left dazzled and dolorous. Finally magnetized by the looks fixed upon her, Esperance turned her head away with a little cry of surprise. Mlle. Frahender, who ...

— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt

... be moderate in his enjoyments. In conformity with this plan he ran riot on Sunday; but worked diligently during the rest of the week. He bestowed his fancy on five women at once; but represented himself, when in their company, as a poor artist or musician, and ...

— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

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