artistart‧ist /ˈɑːtɪst $ ˈɑːr-/ ●●● S3 W2 noun [countable] 
someone who produces art, especially paintings or drawings: 
an exhibition of paintings by local artists → make-up artist at make-up(1)2a professional performer, especially a singer, dancer, or actor: Many of the artists in the show donated their fee to charity.3informal someone who is extremely good at something: He’s an artist in the kitchen. → con artistTHESAURUSartist someone who produces art, especially paintings or drawings: · an exhibition of paintings by 50 contemporary artists· a wildlife artist who specializes in drawing birdspainter someone who paints pictures: · the Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer· Sisley was principally a landscape painter.photographer someone who takes photographs, as an art or as a job: · Cartier-Bresson was one of the greatest photographers of all time.· a fashion photographerpotter someone who makes pots or other objects from clay: · In Spain, local potters produce ceramics with beautiful brightly-coloured designs.sculptor someone who makes sculptures (=a work of art that is made from stone, metal, or wood): · The museum has several pieces by the great English sculptor, Sir Henry Moore.performance artist someone who uses acting, dance and other actions to create art that expresses an idea: · a one-man show by the French performance artist, Orlan
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- At that time Picasso was a struggling artist, little known outside Paris.
- I bought some post cards of prints by Japanese artists.
- Leonardo was the greatest artist of his time.
- She's an artist in the kitchen.
- The band are not just successful recording artists - they are constantly touring and playing live to sell-out crowds.
- The obituary described Nureyev as 'a great dancer and a true artist'.
- This exhibit of paintings and sculptures traces the artist's work during five decades.
- We asked a local artist to come and show her work to the students.
- A bold artist and rugged individualist, Jones loves to lift the lid on the id.
- Richter is not a conventional painter: he is an artist who happens to use paint as a medium.
- Royalties on record sales govern how much an artist earns from his or her recording career.
- Sis, the son of two artists, grew up in the Czech capital of Prague.
- The Minoan faience artists achieved very high levels of technical ability.
- Through figurative abstracted works on paper, Tempe artist Ron Bimrose taps into light themes like transition, fate and personal choice.
- You've just got to do your best, whether you're a road-sweeper or an artist.
THESAURUS
someone who produces art, especially paintings or drawings: · an exhibition of paintings by 50 contemporary artists· a wildlife artist who specializes in drawing birds
someone who paints pictures: · the Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer· Sisley was principally a landscape painter.
someone who takes photographs, as an art or as a job: · Cartier-Bresson was one of the greatest photographers of all time.· a fashion photographer
someone who makes pots or other objects from clay: · In Spain, local potters produce ceramics with beautiful brightly-coloured designs.
someone who makes sculptures (=a work of art that is made from stone, metal, or wood): · The museum has several pieces by the great English sculptor, Sir Henry Moore.
someone who uses acting, dance and other actions to create art that expresses an idea: · a one-man show by the French performance artist, Orlan
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who produces art someone who produces paintings, sculptures, or any kind of art: · Leonardo was the greatest artist of his time.· I bought some post cards of prints by Japanese artists.· The obituary described Nureyev as 'a great dancer and a true artist'.
someone who paints pictures someone who paints pictures: · This is by the great Spanish painter, Goya.· Michelangelo, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, died in 1564.portrait painter (=someone who paints pictures of people): · Sir Henry Raeburn, the famous Scots portrait painterlandscape painter (=someone who paints pictures of places, the countryside etc): · Turner was probably the greatest landscape painter that England has ever produced.
someone who produces works of art, especially paintings or drawings: · an exhibition of works by Italian artists· At that time Picasso was a struggling artist, little known outside Paris.· We asked a local artist to come and show her work to the students.
someone who performs in a show, concert, play etc someone who performs in a show, concert etc: · Enrico is impressive both as a performer and a choreographer.· As a jazz performer she is astounding, capable of expressing a broad range of feeling and expression.a seasoned performer (=someone who has been performing for a long time): · Tara is a seasoned performer who started acting at the age of 10.
a professional performer, especially in music, dance, or the theatre: · Many of the artists in the show donated their fees to charity.a recording artist: · The band are not just successful recording artists - they are constantly touring and playing live to sell-out crowds.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She was an extremely gifted poet. a professional mime artistCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Paintings by contemporary artists covered the walls.
She was an extremely gifted poet. (=someone whose job is to put make-up on actors, people appearing on television etc)· the chief make-up artist on the film
a professional mime artist· She also pays due attention to the different positioning of black women artists within feminist art practice.· New Deal programs also gave many black artists a chance to develop their craft.· Does it matter, in 1990, whether a Black artist goes to art school?· Draper surely got better money at Warner Bros., just as all the black artists signing with the majors did.· So the occasional gallery owner prepared to support a Black artist gets much credit in this show.· And most of the music initially played at discos was supplied by black artists.· In the short run, it made many black artists unacceptable on urban stations.· Stevie Wonder is a black artist, but a lot of his music comes out pop.
· The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.· You name your favorite contemporary artist and odds are they are involved.· This is the cue for interactive sculpture by contemporary artists and computer-generated visual effects.· Nevertheless, many contemporary artists were having their drawings and paintings photographed rather than engraved and sold in different formats.· The other area is close to the Liffey quays and offers contemporary art and artists studios.· There are also contributions from contemporary jazz artists! bold!· He also patronized contemporary artists, including Thomas Cromek and Dessoulavy.· March 2-April 1: Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists, a group exhibit featuring seven major contemporary artists.
· I mean, there it is: he was the greatest artist at least to me of our century.· His designs live on today, looking as serenely inevitable as they did decades ago, the art of a great artist.· For me Ilona is one of the world's great artists.· Himes' friends and acquaintances included small-time Cleveland hustlers and great artists such as Ralph Ellison.· A flight of three steps led up into another gallery, this one depicting great artists.· Maybe we only come to fully appreciate many great athletes and artists just before they walk out the door.· The little village of Grasemere has inspired many of our great artists and poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge and Ruskin.· Like great artists they see the world differently.
· The exhibition was set up in a room housing the work of early nineteenth century local artists, including Francis Danby.· And to humanize the plant, how about adding a few paintings and collages from local artists?· She went on to her meeting with a young local artist who showed her his portfolio.· The municipal gallery, though, likely will become the focal point for local artists from now on.· Each owned a weird splotch of colour in a white and silver frame, painted and framed by a local artist.· But local artists already have another venue in the city.
· Our entire sense of Caravaggio as a modern artist is, according to historians, a fiction.· Their ideal was the totally autonomous modern artist unfettered by ancestors, tradition, or nature.· The price differential between Old Master and modern artists was inevitably reflected in the drawings.· He asserted that a modern artist should be in tune with his times, careful to avoid hackneyed subjects.· The fairly weak flow of publications devoted to the work of modern artists has dried up.· Early modern artists, generally speaking, did little to overturn this convention in painting or sculpture.· As we have seen, it is not the remit of the modern artist to make facsimiles of nature.
· I don't worry about stealing bits from other artists now.· After all, Toulouse-Lautrec, like many other artists of the late nineteenth century, was obsessed with lesbianism.· Protect Yourself Young songwriters are often worried about record companies and other artists stealing their songs.· This old mill by the stream will no doubt inspire other artists, painters, maybe even a songwriter.· You see Modigliani among other artists who were also friends of my father.· Certainly no other nineteenth-century artist was so widely studied and so differently interpreted by the painters of the succeeding age.· Another sort of writing about art is what artists themselves have written, either about their own work or about other artists.· But other artists have come to light through less likely channels, such as the pages of colour supplements.
· The picture project was part of a district wide experiment to involve children with professional artists.· Printers, modems and speakers were considered necessities, but scanners were the province of professional artists with money to burn.· The state chapter is likewise determined to keep that profile high, with a membership including various emerging and professional artists.· Proper gallery or exhibition space is expensive to hire, prohibitively so for the average professional artist.· Wendy Jelbert is a professional artist.· You provide the potential, they provide a professional make-up artist, stylist and photographer.· Consequently, most professional artists need to exploit a variety of methods for selling their work.
· The idea is to reward young artists who would rarely command their highest price on the first sale.· If Joan was an abstract purist, other young artists were turning toward Bad Painting and cartoon art.· These threads, gathered together, give us some idea of the current concerns of younger women artists.· Both grew from self-involved young adults to artists of rare individuality.· But, like so many young artists in the early decades of the century, Miro could not keep away from Paris.· The young artist seems to have the same dismissive outlook.· They were partners in an art gallery that specialized in avant-garde paintings by young artists.
NOUN· Recent weeks have seen it ride roughshod over ostrich breeders, society con artists, champagne fraudsters and the occasional fallen tycoon.· La Tour was a master of light whose subjects ranged from con artists to saints.· Thorn is determined to prove that Bilko is not just a con artist but a crook.· Hayes is part-time con artist, part-time investigator.· Mel Stewart brings an appealing believability to the role of veteran con artist Blue.· Woodstock police warn that a group of door-to-door con artists were last seen...
VERB· Gone are the days when women recording artists were tightly packaged and adorned with ribbons.· And recording artists are being placed in that same context.
· It shows the artist as Harlequin, drinking in the Paris bar which gives its name to the picture.· The Red Studio and the views of Matisse at work show an artist exploring the relationship between real and fictive worlds.· The winner's work will be shown alongside artists in this cartoon hall of fame.· This year 48 artists work was shown.· This is a fairly new Gallery which is showing art by artists who have disabilities.· Carrington's Self-Portrait of 1938-9 shows the artist seated in a room with a lactating hyena and a rocking horse.· The press photographs show the artist in cowboy hat with a shotgun, surrounded by skulls and horns.· Philomene Magers continues to show artists who have exerted a strong theoretical influence upon a younger generation.
· Upstairs, in the first passage, are works by the artists who set the style for Rudolf's court.· I look at most of the people I get to work with as artists.· He says that he's always wanted to work as an artist at Slimbridge - it's a lifetimes dream come true.· Unemployed after graduating as an architect in 1930, she ended up working as a museum artist in the University of Pennsylvania.· Here works military heraldic artist Mary Denton.· Tindle was then working as a commercial artist in Soho and living in a room in Portobello Road.· I remember going to see some works by the artist Klement Redko.· Differences of style within the manuscripts containing the signature show that W. de Brail' worked with several other artists.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a frustrated artist/actor/poet etc
- Perhaps she is a budding artist, a future novelist.
- In between travel trips Wilcock ran into a woman at a party who lived with an artist manqué, Walter Bowart.
- A trained psychiatric nurse, he is the current artist in residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
- Well, towards the end of 1990 I was appointed artist in residence at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool.
WORD FAMILYnounartartistartistryadjectiveartisticartyadverbartistically
1someone who produces art, especially paintings or drawings: an exhibition of paintings by local artists → make-up artist at make-up(1)2a professional performer, especially a singer, dancer, or actor: Many of the artists in the show donated their fee to charity.3informal someone who is extremely good at something: He’s an artist in the kitchen. → con artistTHESAURUSartist someone who produces art, especially paintings or drawings: · an exhibition of paintings by 50 contemporary artists· a wildlife artist who specializes in drawing birdspainter someone who paints pictures: · the Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer· Sisley was principally a landscape painter.photographer someone who takes photographs, as an art or as a job: · Cartier-Bresson was one of the greatest photographers of all time.· a fashion photographerpotter someone who makes pots or other objects from clay: · In Spain, local potters produce ceramics with beautiful brightly-coloured designs.sculptor someone who makes sculptures (=a work of art that is made from stone, metal, or wood): · The museum has several pieces by the great English sculptor, Sir Henry Moore.performance artist someone who uses acting, dance and other actions to create art that expresses an idea: · a one-man show by the French performance artist, Orlan