英语词汇“artist”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

An artist is someone whose life's work — or passionate hobby — focuses on some creative enterprise. If you love to paint portraits of your dog, you are an artist.

People who make films, write short stories, or build beautiful dollhouses are all artists. Doing anything that involves creativity and imagination, especially if it yields some finished project, is being an artist. Sometimes people use the word for someone who's great at what she does, or who uses extra flair or originality: "That barista is a total artist — look, she made my latte foam look like a hedgehog!" The Latin root is ars, or "art."

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artist: artistic, artistry, artists+/art: artist, artless, arts, arty/artistic: artistically, inartistic, unartistic/artistry: artistries/artless: artlessly, artlessness/artlessness: artlessnesses/arty: artier, artiest, artily/inartistic: inartistically/unartistic: unartistically

USAGE EXAMPLES

Referring to the backing vocal track, she said, "it is not uncommon for artists to sing to track during certain live performances".

BBC(Jan 02, 2017)

But she decided that he was, after all, an artist.

The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017)

The Downtown Development Authority of Brunswick is offering big chunks of the tree to wood carvers and artists as part of a contest.

Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017)

n a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

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Hans Arp

Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)

John James Audubon

United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851)

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

United States artist noted for his line-drawn caricatures (1904-2003)

Jasper Johns

United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)

Edward Lear

British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888)

Louis Comfort Tiffany

United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933)

Praxiteles

ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC)

Josef Albers

United States painter born in Germany; works characterized by simple geometrical patterns in various colors (1888-1976)

Leon Battista Alberti

Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472)

Saint Ambrose

(Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397)

Johann Sebastian Bach

German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)

Samuel Barber

United States composer (1910-1981)

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor

Bela Bartok

Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945)

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827)

Vanessa Stephen

English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

Vincenzo Bellini

Italian composer of operas (1801-1835)

Thomas Hart Benton

United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975)

Alban Berg

Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)

Irving Berlin

United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989)

Louis-Hector Berlioz

French composer of romantic works (1803-1869)

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini

Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680)

Leonard Bernstein

United States conductor and composer (1918-1990)

Georges Bizet

French composer best known for his operas (1838-1875)

William Blake

visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)

Marc Blitzstein

United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964)

Ernest Bloch

United States composer (born in Switzerland) who composed symphonies and chamber music and choral music and a piano sonata and an opera (1880-1959)

Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin

Russian composer (1833-1887)

Hieronymus Bosch

Dutch painter (1450-1516)

Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi

Italian painter of mythological and religious paintings (1444-1510)

Pierre Boulez

French composer of serial music (born in 1925)

Mathew B. Brady

United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits; was the official Union photographer for the American Civil War (1823-1896)

Johannes Brahms

German composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897)

Constantin Brancusi

Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957)

Georges Braque

French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963)

Lord Britten of Aldeburgh

major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)

Hablot Knight Browne

English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

Max Bruch

German composer (1838-1920)

Anton Bruckner

Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896)

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569)

William Byrd

English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623)

John Milton Cage Jr.

United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

Alexander Calder

United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610)

Hoagland Howard Carmichael

United States songwriter (1899-1981)

Benvenuto Cellini

Italian sculptor (1500-1571)

Paul Cezanne

French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906)

Marc Chagall

French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985)

Carlos Chavez

Mexican composer of nationalistic works using themes from Indian folk music (1899-1978)

Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Cherubini

Italian composer of church music and operas (1760-1842)

Giorgio de Chirico

Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978)

Frederic Francois Chopin

French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849)

Giovanni Cimabue

painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302)

George Michael Cohan

United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942)

John Constable

English landscape painter (1776-1837)

Aaron Copland

United States composer who developed a distinctly American music (1900-1990)

John Singleton Copley

American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815)

Arcangelo Corelli

Italian violinist and composer of violin concertos (1653-1713)

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875)

Antonio Allegri da Correggio

Italian painter noted for his use of chiaroscuro and perspective (1494-1534)

Francois Couperin

French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists (1668-1733)

Gustave Courbet

French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877)

Sir Noel Pierce Coward

English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)

Thomas Crawford

United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857)

Nathaniel Currier

United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1813-1888)

Karl Czerny

Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857)

Salvador Dali

surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989)

Honore Daumier

French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879)

Jacques Louis David

French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)

Stuart Davis

United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964)

Claude Achille Debussy

French composer who is said to have created Impressionism in music (1862-1918)

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

French impressionist painter (1834-1917)

Willem de Kooning

United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997)

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix

French romantic painter (1798-1863)

Clement Philibert Leo Delibes

French composer of operas (1836-1891)

Frederick Delius

English composer of orchestral works (1862-1934)

Andre Derain

French painter and exponent of fauvism (1880-1954)

Antoine Domino

United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)

Donato di Betto Bardi

Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466)

Gaetano Donizetti

Italian composer of operas (1797-1848)

John Dowland

English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626)

Raoul Dufy

French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953)

Paul Dukas

French composer (1865-1935)

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier

English writer and illustrator; grandfather of Daphne du Maurier (1834-1896)

Albrecht Durer

a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528)

Antonin Dvorak

Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904)

Bob Dylan

United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)

Alfred Eisenstaedt

United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898)

Sir Edward William Elgar

British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)

Domenikos Theotocopoulos

Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614)

Georges Enesco

Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955)

Sir Jacob Epstein

British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959)

Max Ernst

painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976)

Jan van Eyck

Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)

Manuel de Falla

Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946)

Jules Feifer

United States cartoonist who created a sarcastic comic strip (born in 1929)

Arthur Fiedler

popular United States conductor (1894-1979)

Stephen Collins Foster

United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

Jean Honore Fragonard

French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806)

Cesar Franck

French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890)

Daniel Chester French

United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)

Roger Eliot Fry

English painter and art critic (1866-1934)

Thomas Gainsborough

English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)

Paul Gauguin

French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903)

George Gershwin

United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937)

Alberto Giacometti

Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966)

Charles Dana Gibson

United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944)

Giotto di Bondone

Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Russian composer (1804-1857)

Christoph Willibald von Gluck

German composer of more than 100 operas (1714-1787)

Reuben Lucius Goldberg

United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970)

Benjamin David Goodman

United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986)

Charles Francois Gounod

French composer best remembered for his operas (1818-1893)

Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes

Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828)

George Percy Aldridge Grainger

United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961)

Duncan James Corrow Grant

Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)

Edvard Hagerup Grieg

Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907)

Jaun Gris

Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927)

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie

United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967)

Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy

French operatic composer (1799-1862)

Frans Hals

Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666)

George Frederick Handel

a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)

William Christopher Handy

United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958)

Frederick Childe Hassam

United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935)

Franz Joseph Haydn

prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809)

Dame Barbara Hepworth

British sculptor (1902-1975)

Victor Herbert

United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)

Woodrow Charles Herman

United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987)

Paul Hindemith

German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)

Malvina Hoffman

United States sculptor (1887-1966)

William Hogarth

English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764)

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849)

Holbein the Elder

German painter of religious works (1465-1524)

Holbein the Younger

German painter and engraver noted for his portraits; he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king's prospective brides (1497-1543)

Charles Hardin Holley

United States rock star (1936-1959)

Winslow Homer

United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910)

Arthur Honegger

Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955)

Engelbert Humperdinck

German composer of six operas and other incidental music (1854-1921)

William Holman Hunt

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

Jacques Francois Antoine Ibert

French composer (1890-1962)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

French classical painter (1780-1867)

James Merritt Ives

United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895)

Charles Edward Ives

United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954)

Joseph Joachim

Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907)

Scott Joplin

United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917)

Aram Kachaturian

Armenian composer who incorporated oriental folk music (1903-1978)

Wassily Kandinski

Russian painter who was a pioneer of abstract art (1866-1944)

Rockwell Kent

United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971)

Jerome David Kern

United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945)

Aram Ilich Khachaturian

Russian composer (born in Armenia) whose works are romantic and reflect his interest in folk music (1903-1978)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

German expressionist painter (1880-1938)

Paul Klee

Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940)

Gustav Klimt

Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918)

Franz Joseph Kline

United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962)

Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky

United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951)

Lee Krasner

United States artist remembered for her spontaneous approach to painting; she was a founder of the New York school of abstract expressionism (1908-1984)

Gaston Lachaise

United States sculptor (born in France) noted for his large nude figures (1882-1935)

Leonard Constant Lambert

English composer and conductor (1905-1951)

Dorothea Lange

United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965)

Orlando di Lasso

Belgian composer (1532-1594)

Georges de La Tour

French painter of religious works (1593-1652)

Sir Thomas Lawrence

English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)

Huddie Leadbetter

United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949)

Fernand Leger

French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955)

Franz Lehar

Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948)

John Lennon

English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)

Roy Lichtenstein

United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997)

Maya Lin

United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)

Jacques Lipchitz

United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973)

Fra Filippo Lippi

Italian painter whose works show a three-dimensional style (1406-1469)

Filippino Lippi

Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504)

Franz Liszt

Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886)

Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton

English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948)

Frederick Loewe

United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987)

Sir David Alexander Cecil Low

British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)

Laurence Stephen Lowry

English painter (1887-1976)

Jean Baptiste Lully

French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)

Lysippus

Greek sculptor (4th century BC)

Edward MacDowell

United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908)

Rene Magritte

Belgian surrealist painter (1898-1967)

Gustav Mahler

Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911)

Aristide Maillol

French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944)

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Russian abstract painter (1878-1935)

Edouard Manet

French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883)

Andrea Mantegna

Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506)

Reginald Marsh

United States painter (1898-1954)

Jules Emile Frederic Massenet

French composer best remembered for his pop operas (1842-1912)

Henri Emile Benoit Matisse

French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954)

William Henry Mauldin

United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003)

Sir James Paul McCartney

English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)

Gian Carlo Menotti

United States composer (born in Italy) of operas (born in 1911)

Jakob Liebmann Beer

German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564)

Darius Milhaud

French composer of works that combine jazz and polytonality and Brazilian music (1892-1974)

Sir John Everett Millais

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896)

Alton Glenn Miller

United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

Jean Francois Millet

French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)

Joan Miro

Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983)

Amedeo Modigliano

Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920)

Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944)

Claude Monet

French impressionist painter (1840-1926)

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer (1567-1643)

Henry Spencer Moore

British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)

Douglas Moore

United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)

Anna Mary Robertson Moses

United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)

Robert Motherwell

United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791)

Edvard Munch

Norwegian painter (1863-1944)

Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Spanish painter (1617-1682)

Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky

Russian composer of operas and orchestral works (1839-1881)

Thomas Nast

United States political cartoonist (1840-1902)

Louise Nevelson

United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988)

Carl August Nielsen

Danish composer (1865-1931)

Isamu Noguchi

United States sculptor (1904-1988)

Jacques Offenbach

French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880)

Georgia Okeeffe

United States painter (1887-1986)

Claes Thure Oldenburg

United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929)

Yoko Ono

United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933)

Roy Orbison

United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988)

Carl Orff

German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982)

Eugene Ormandy

United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985)

Jose Clemente Orozco

Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949)

Seiji Ozawa

United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Italian composer (1526-1594)

Maxfield Frederick Parrish

United States painter (1870-1966)

Pheidias

ancient Greek sculptor (circa 500-432 BC)

Pablo Picasso

prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973)

Walter Piston

United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976)

Jackson Pollock

United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)

Cole Albert Porter

United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946)

Francis Poulenc

French pianist and composer (1899-1963)

Nicolas Poussin

French painter in the classical style (1594-1665)

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev

Russian composer of ballets and symphonies and operas (1891-1953)

Giacomo Puccini

Italian operatic composer noted for the dramatic realism of his operas (1858-1924)

Henry Purcell

English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)

Howard Pyle

United States writer and illustrator of children's books (1853-1911)

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff

composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943)

Jean-Philippe Rameau

French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764)

Raffaello Sanzio

Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520)

Maurice Ravel

French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)

Stephen Michael Reich

United States composer (born in 1936)

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn

influential Dutch artist (1606-1669)

Pierre Auguste Renoir

French impressionist painter (1841-1919)

Ottorino Respighi

Italian composer remembered for his symphonic poems (1879-1936)

Sir Joshua Reynolds

English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792)

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov

Russian composer of operas and orchestral works; often used themes from folk music (1844-1908)

Diego Rivera

socialist Mexican painter of murals (1886-1957)

Norman Rockwell

United States illustrator whose works present a sentimental idealized view of everyday life (1894-1978)

Richard Rodgers

United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979)

Francois Auguste Rene Rodin

French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917)

Sigmund Romberg

United States composer (born in Hungary) who composed operettas (1887-1951)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882)

Giloacchino Antonio Rossini

Italian composer remembered for his operas (1792-1868)

Mark Rothko

United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970)

Le Douanier Rousseau

French primitive painter (1844-1910)

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640)

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein

Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894)

Charles Camille Saint-Saens

French pianist and composer (1835-1921)

John Singer Sargent

United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925)

Erik Alfred Leslie Satie

French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of Romanticism (1866-1925)

Artur Schnabel

United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951)

Arnold Schoenberg

United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951)

Franz Seraph Peter Schubert

Austrian composer known for his compositions for voice and piano (1797-1828)

Charles Munroe Schulz

United States cartoonist whose comic strip included the beagle Snoopy (1922-2000)

Robert Alexander Schumann

German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856)

Clara Josephine Schumann

German pianist and composer of piano music; renowned for her interpretation of music, especially the music of her husband Robert Schumann (1819-1896)

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin

Russian composer of orchestral and piano music (1872-1915)

George Segal

United States sculptor (born in 1924)

Andres Segovia

Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987)

Alois Senefelder

German printer who invented lithography (1771-1834)

Roger Huntington Sessions

United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985)

Georges Pierre Seurat

French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891)

Benjamin Shahn

United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969)

Arthur Jacob Arshawsky

United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004)

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Russian composer best known for his fifteen symphonies (1906-1975)

Johan Julius Christian Sibelius

Finnish composer (1865-1957)

Shelby Silverstein

United States poet and cartoonist remembered for his stories and poems for children (1932-1999)

Paul Simon

United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942)

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Mexican painter of murals depicting protest and revolution (1896-1974)

Bedrich Smetana

Czech composer (1824-1884)

David Roland Smith

United States sculptor (1906-1965)

Stephen Sondheim

United States composer of musicals (born in 1930)

John Philip Sousa

a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)

Chaim Soutine

French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943)

Jan Steen

Dutch genre painter (1626-1679)

Edward Jean Steichen

United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973)

Saul Steinberg

United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his caricatures of famous people (1914-1999)

Frank Philip Stella

United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)

Alfred Stieglitz

United States photographer (1864-1946)

Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski

United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977)

Strauss the Elder

Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849)

Strauss the Younger

Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899)

Richard Strauss

German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949)

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971)

Gilbert Charles Stuart

United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828)

Arthur Seymour Sullivan

English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)

Thomas Sully

United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)

George Szell

United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970)

Lorado Taft

United States sculptor (1860-1936)

William Henry Fox Talbot

English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)

Thomas Tallis

English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585)

Yves Tanguy

United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955)

Joseph Deems Taylor

United States composer and music critic (1885-1966)

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893)

Georg Philipp Telemann

German baroque composer (1681-1767)

Sir John Tenniel

English cartoonist (1820-1914)

Virgil Garnett Thomson

United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989)

James Grover Thurber

United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Italian painter (1696-1770)

Jacopo Robusti

Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594)

Tiziano Vecellio

old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576)

Mark Tobey

United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976)

Arturo Toscanini

Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957)

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

French painter who portrayed life in the cafes and music halls of Montmartre (1864-1901)

John Trumbull

American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843)

Joseph Mallord William Turner

English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)

Maurice Utrillo

French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955)

Sir Anthony Vandyke

Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890)

Edgar Varese

United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965)

Viktor Vasarely

French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997)

Giorgio Vasari

Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958)

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez

Spanish painter (1599-1660)

Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi

Italian operatic composer (1813-1901)

Jan van der Meer

Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675)

Paolo Veronese

Italian painter of the Venetian school (1528-1588)

Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842)

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Brazilian composer (1887-1959)

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

Italian baroque composer and violinist (1675-1741)

Maurice de Vlaminck

French painter and exponent of fauvism (1876-1958)

Jean Edouard Vuillard

French painter (1868-1940)

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)

Bruno Walter

German conductor (1876-1962)

Sir William Turner Walton

English composer (1902-1983)

Andy Warhol

United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987)

Jean Antoine Watteau

French painter (1684-1721)

Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber

German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)

Max Weber

United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961)

Kurt Weill

German composer; collaborated with Bertolt Brecht (1900-1950)

Benjamin West

English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)

Edward Weston

United States photographer(1886-1958)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

United States painter (1834-1903)

Hiram King Williams

United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)

Hugo Wolf

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

Grant Wood

United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

Sir Henry Joseph Wood

English conductor (1869-1944)

Andrew Wyeth

United States painter (born in 1917)

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

painter

an artist who paints

lensman, photographer

someone who takes photographs professionally

Pre-Raphaelite

a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals

graphic artist, printmaker

an artist who designs and makes prints

pyrographer

an artist who practices pyrography

romantic, romanticist

an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism

carver, sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker

an artist who creates sculptures

stylist

an artist who is a master of a particular style

surrealist

an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism

symbolist

a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols

Indiana, Robert Indiana

United States pop artist (born 1928)

abstract artist, abstractionist

a painter of abstract pictures

adapter, arranger, transcriber

a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance

camera operator, cameraman, cinematographer

a photographer who operates a movie camera

cartoonist

a person who draws cartoons

cantor, choirmaster, precentor

the musical director of a choir

colorist

a painter able to achieve special effects with color

commercial artist

an illustrator who is supported by advertising

composer

someone who composes music as a profession

conductor, director, music director

the person who leads a musical group

cubist

an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism

dauber

an unskilled painter

distortionist

a painter who introduces distortions

engraver

a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate

Fauve, fauvist

a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism

genre painter

a painter of scenes from everyday life

impressionist

a painter who follows the theories of Impressionism

landscapist

someone who paints landscapes

lithographer

a printmaker who uses lithography

miniaturist

someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail

muralist

a painter of murals

oil painter

a painter who uses oil paints

old master

a great European painter prior to 19th century

paparazzo

a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines

pavement artist

someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money)

pointillist

a painter who uses the technique of pointillism

limner, portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer

a painter or drawer of portraits

Post-impressionist, Postimpressionist

an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism

press photographer

a photographer who works for a newspaper

realist

a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style

scene painter, scenic artist

an artist specializing in scenic subjects

sculptress

a woman sculptor

sketcher

someone who draws sketches

virtuoso

a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry

watercolorist, watercolourist

a painter who paints with watercolors

creator

a person who grows or makes or invents things

单词	artist
释义	artist (once / 66 pages) n An artist is someone whose life's work — or passionate hobby — focuses on some creative enterprise. If you love to paint portraits of your dog, you are an artist. People who make films, write short stories, or build beautiful dollhouses are all artists. Doing anything that involves creativity and imagination, especially if it yields some finished project, is being an artist. Sometimes people use the word for someone who's great at what she does, or who uses extra flair or originality: "That barista is a total artist — look, she made my latte foam look like a hedgehog!" The Latin root is ars, or "art." WORD FAMILY artist: artistic, artistry, artists+/art: artist, artless, arts, arty/artistic: artistically, inartistic, unartistic/artistry: artistries/artless: artlessly, artlessness/artlessness: artlessnesses/arty: artier, artiest, artily/inartistic: inartistically/unartistic: unartistically USAGE EXAMPLES Referring to the backing vocal track, she said, "it is not uncommon for artists to sing to track during certain live performances". BBC(Jan 02, 2017) But she decided that he was, after all, an artist. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The Downtown Development Authority of Brunswick is offering big chunks of the tree to wood carvers and artists as part of a contest. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) n a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination Syn\|Exp\|Hypo\|Hyper creative person Hans Arp Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966) John James Audubon United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851) 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 United States artist noted for his line-drawn caricatures (1904-2003) Jasper Johns United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930) Edward Lear British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888) Louis Comfort Tiffany United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933) Praxiteles ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC) Josef Albers United States painter born in Germany; works characterized by simple geometrical patterns in various colors (1888-1976) Leon Battista Alberti Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472) Saint Ambrose (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397) Johann Sebastian Bach German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750) Samuel Barber United States composer (1910-1981) Frederic Auguste Bartholdi French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty now in New York harbor Bela Bartok Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945) Ludwig van Beethoven German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827) Vanessa Stephen English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) Vincenzo Bellini Italian composer of operas (1801-1835) Thomas Hart Benton United States artist whose paintings portrayed life in the Midwest and South (1889-1975) Alban Berg Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935) Irving Berlin United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989) Louis-Hector Berlioz French composer of romantic works (1803-1869) Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini Italian sculptor and architect of the baroque period in Italy; designed many churches and chapels and tombs and fountains (1598-1680) Leonard Bernstein United States conductor and composer (1918-1990) Georges Bizet French composer best known for his operas (1838-1875) William Blake visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827) Marc Blitzstein United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964) Ernest Bloch United States composer (born in Switzerland) who composed symphonies and chamber music and choral music and a piano sonata and an opera (1880-1959) Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin Russian composer (1833-1887) Hieronymus Bosch Dutch painter (1450-1516) Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi Italian painter of mythological and religious paintings (1444-1510) Pierre Boulez French composer of serial music (born in 1925) Mathew B. Brady United States pioneer photographer famous for his portraits; was the official Union photographer for the American Civil War (1823-1896) Johannes Brahms German composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897) Constantin Brancusi Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957) Georges Braque French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963) Lord Britten of Aldeburgh major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976) Hablot Knight Browne English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882) Max Bruch German composer (1838-1920) Anton Bruckner Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896) Pieter Brueghel the Elder Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569) William Byrd English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623) John Milton Cage Jr. United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) Alexander Calder United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light (1573-1610) Hoagland Howard Carmichael United States songwriter (1899-1981) Benvenuto Cellini Italian sculptor (1500-1571) Paul Cezanne French Post-impressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906) Marc Chagall French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985) Carlos Chavez Mexican composer of nationalistic works using themes from Indian folk music (1899-1978) Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Cherubini Italian composer of church music and operas (1760-1842) Giorgio de Chirico Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978) Frederic Francois Chopin French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849) Giovanni Cimabue painter of the Florentine school; anticipated the move from Byzantine to naturalistic art (1240-1302) George Michael Cohan United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942) John Constable English landscape painter (1776-1837) Aaron Copland United States composer who developed a distinctly American music (1900-1990) John Singleton Copley American painter who did portraits of Paul Revere and John Hancock before fleeing to England to avoid the American Revolution (1738-1815) Arcangelo Corelli Italian violinist and composer of violin concertos (1653-1713) Jean Baptiste Camille Corot French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875) Antonio Allegri da Correggio Italian painter noted for his use of chiaroscuro and perspective (1494-1534) Francois Couperin French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists (1668-1733) Gustave Courbet French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877) Sir Noel Pierce Coward English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973) Thomas Crawford United States neoclassical sculptor (1814-1857) Nathaniel Currier United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1813-1888) Karl Czerny Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857) Salvador Dali surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989) Honore Daumier French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879) Jacques Louis David French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825) Stuart Davis United States painter who developed an American version of cubism (1894-1964) Claude Achille Debussy French composer who is said to have created Impressionism in music (1862-1918) Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas French impressionist painter (1834-1917) Willem de Kooning United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997) Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix French romantic painter (1798-1863) Clement Philibert Leo Delibes French composer of operas (1836-1891) Frederick Delius English composer of orchestral works (1862-1934) Andre Derain French painter and exponent of fauvism (1880-1954) Antoine Domino United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928) Donato di Betto Bardi Florentine sculptor famous for his lifelike sculptures (1386-1466) Gaetano Donizetti Italian composer of operas (1797-1848) John Dowland English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626) Raoul Dufy French painter noted for brightly colored scenes (1877-1953) Paul Dukas French composer (1865-1935) George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier English writer and illustrator; grandfather of Daphne du Maurier (1834-1896) Albrecht Durer a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528) Antonin Dvorak Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904) Bob Dylan United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941) Alfred Eisenstaedt United States photographer (born in Germany) whose unposed documentary photographs created photojournalism (born in 1898) Sir Edward William Elgar British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934) Domenikos Theotocopoulos Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614) Georges Enesco Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955) Sir Jacob Epstein British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959) Max Ernst painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976) Jan van Eyck Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441) Manuel de Falla Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946) Jules Feifer United States cartoonist who created a sarcastic comic strip (born in 1929) Arthur Fiedler popular United States conductor (1894-1979) Stephen Collins Foster United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864) Jean Honore Fragonard French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806) Cesar Franck French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890) Daniel Chester French United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931) Roger Eliot Fry English painter and art critic (1866-1934) Thomas Gainsborough English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788) Paul Gauguin French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903) George Gershwin United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937) Alberto Giacometti Swiss sculptor and painter known for his bronze sculptures of elongated figures (1901-1966) Charles Dana Gibson United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944) Giotto di Bondone Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337) Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka Russian composer (1804-1857) Christoph Willibald von Gluck German composer of more than 100 operas (1714-1787) Reuben Lucius Goldberg United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970) Benjamin David Goodman United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) Charles Francois Gounod French composer best remembered for his operas (1818-1893) Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes Spanish painter well known for his portraits and for his satires (1746-1828) George Percy Aldridge Grainger United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961) Duncan James Corrow Grant Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978) Edvard Hagerup Grieg Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907) Jaun Gris Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927) Woodrow Wilson Guthrie United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967) Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy French operatic composer (1799-1862) Frans Hals Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666) George Frederick Handel a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759) William Christopher Handy United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958) Frederick Childe Hassam United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935) Franz Joseph Haydn prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809) Dame Barbara Hepworth British sculptor (1902-1975) Victor Herbert United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924) Woodrow Charles Herman United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987) Paul Hindemith German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963) Malvina Hoffman United States sculptor (1887-1966) William Hogarth English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764) Katsushika Hokusai Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849) Holbein the Elder German painter of religious works (1465-1524) Holbein the Younger German painter and engraver noted for his portraits; he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king's prospective brides (1497-1543) Charles Hardin Holley United States rock star (1936-1959) Winslow Homer United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910) Arthur Honegger Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955) Engelbert Humperdinck German composer of six operas and other incidental music (1854-1921) William Holman Hunt Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) Jacques Francois Antoine Ibert French composer (1890-1962) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French classical painter (1780-1867) James Merritt Ives United States lithographer who (with his partner Nathaniel Currier) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1824-1895) Charles Edward Ives United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954) Joseph Joachim Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907) Scott Joplin United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917) Aram Kachaturian Armenian composer who incorporated oriental folk music (1903-1978) Wassily Kandinski Russian painter who was a pioneer of abstract art (1866-1944) Rockwell Kent United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971) Jerome David Kern United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945) Aram Ilich Khachaturian Russian composer (born in Armenia) whose works are romantic and reflect his interest in folk music (1903-1978) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German expressionist painter (1880-1938) Paul Klee Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940) Gustav Klimt Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918) Franz Joseph Kline United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962) Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951) Lee Krasner United States artist remembered for her spontaneous approach to painting; she was a founder of the New York school of abstract expressionism (1908-1984) Gaston Lachaise United States sculptor (born in France) noted for his large nude figures (1882-1935) Leonard Constant Lambert English composer and conductor (1905-1951) Dorothea Lange United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965) Orlando di Lasso Belgian composer (1532-1594) Georges de La Tour French painter of religious works (1593-1652) Sir Thomas Lawrence English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830) Huddie Leadbetter United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949) Fernand Leger French painter who was an early cubist (1881-1955) Franz Lehar Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948) John Lennon English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980) Leonardo da Vinci Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519) Roy Lichtenstein United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997) Maya Lin United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959) Jacques Lipchitz United States sculptor (born in Lithuania) who pioneered cubist sculpture (1891-1973) Fra Filippo Lippi Italian painter whose works show a three-dimensional style (1406-1469) Filippino Lippi Italian painter and son of Fra Filippo Lippi (1457-1504) Franz Liszt Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886) Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948) Frederick Loewe United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987) Sir David Alexander Cecil Low British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963) Laurence Stephen Lowry English painter (1887-1976) Jean Baptiste Lully French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687) Lysippus Greek sculptor (4th century BC) Edward MacDowell United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908) Rene Magritte Belgian surrealist painter (1898-1967) Gustav Mahler Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911) Aristide Maillol French sculptor of monumental female nudes (1861-1944) Kazimir Severinovich Malevich Russian abstract painter (1878-1935) Edouard Manet French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883) Andrea Mantegna Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506) Reginald Marsh United States painter (1898-1954) Jules Emile Frederic Massenet French composer best remembered for his pop operas (1842-1912) Henri Emile Benoit Matisse French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954) William Henry Mauldin United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003) Sir James Paul McCartney English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942) Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847) Gian Carlo Menotti United States composer (born in Italy) of operas (born in 1911) Jakob Liebmann Beer German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864) Michelangelo Buonarroti Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564) Darius Milhaud French composer of works that combine jazz and polytonality and Brazilian music (1892-1974) Sir John Everett Millais Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1829-1896) Alton Glenn Miller United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944) Jean Francois Millet French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) Joan Miro Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983) Amedeo Modigliano Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920) Piet Mondrian Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944) Claude Monet French impressionist painter (1840-1926) Claudio Monteverdi Italian composer (1567-1643) Henry Spencer Moore British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986) Douglas Moore United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969) Samuel Finley Breese Morse United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) Anna Mary Robertson Moses United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961) Robert Motherwell United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791) Edvard Munch Norwegian painter (1863-1944) Bartolome Esteban Murillo Spanish painter (1617-1682) Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky Russian composer of operas and orchestral works (1839-1881) Thomas Nast United States political cartoonist (1840-1902) Louise Nevelson United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988) Carl August Nielsen Danish composer (1865-1931) Isamu Noguchi United States sculptor (1904-1988) Jacques Offenbach French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880) Georgia Okeeffe United States painter (1887-1986) Claes Thure Oldenburg United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929) Yoko Ono United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933) Roy Orbison United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988) Carl Orff German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982) Eugene Ormandy United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985) Jose Clemente Orozco Mexican painter noted for his monumental murals (1883-1949) Seiji Ozawa United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Italian composer (1526-1594) Maxfield Frederick Parrish United States painter (1870-1966) Pheidias ancient Greek sculptor (circa 500-432 BC) Pablo Picasso prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973) Walter Piston United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976) Jackson Pollock United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956) Cole Albert Porter United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946) Francis Poulenc French pianist and composer (1899-1963) Nicolas Poussin French painter in the classical style (1594-1665) Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Russian composer of ballets and symphonies and operas (1891-1953) Giacomo Puccini Italian operatic composer noted for the dramatic realism of his operas (1858-1924) Henry Purcell English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695) Howard Pyle United States writer and illustrator of children's books (1853-1911) Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943) Jean-Philippe Rameau French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764) Raffaello Sanzio Italian painter whose many paintings exemplify the ideals of the High Renaissance (1483-1520) Maurice Ravel French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937) Stephen Michael Reich United States composer (born in 1936) Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn influential Dutch artist (1606-1669) Pierre Auguste Renoir French impressionist painter (1841-1919) Ottorino Respighi Italian composer remembered for his symphonic poems (1879-1936) Sir Joshua Reynolds English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792) Nikolai Andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov Russian composer of operas and orchestral works; often used themes from folk music (1844-1908) Diego Rivera socialist Mexican painter of murals (1886-1957) Norman Rockwell United States illustrator whose works present a sentimental idealized view of everyday life (1894-1978) Richard Rodgers United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979) Francois Auguste Rene Rodin French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917) Sigmund Romberg United States composer (born in Hungary) who composed operettas (1887-1951) Dante Gabriel Rossetti English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882) Giloacchino Antonio Rossini Italian composer remembered for his operas (1792-1868) Mark Rothko United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970) Le Douanier Rousseau French primitive painter (1844-1910) Sir Peter Paul Rubens prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640) Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894) Charles Camille Saint-Saens French pianist and composer (1835-1921) John Singer Sargent United States painter (born in Italy) known for his society portraits (1856-1925) Erik Alfred Leslie Satie French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of Romanticism (1866-1925) Artur Schnabel United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951) Arnold Schoenberg United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951) Franz Seraph Peter Schubert Austrian composer known for his compositions for voice and piano (1797-1828) Charles Munroe Schulz United States cartoonist whose comic strip included the beagle Snoopy (1922-2000) Robert Alexander Schumann German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856) Clara Josephine Schumann German pianist and composer of piano music; renowned for her interpretation of music, especially the music of her husband Robert Schumann (1819-1896) Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin Russian composer of orchestral and piano music (1872-1915) George Segal United States sculptor (born in 1924) Andres Segovia Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987) Alois Senefelder German printer who invented lithography (1771-1834) Roger Huntington Sessions United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985) Georges Pierre Seurat French painter who developed pointillism (1859-1891) Benjamin Shahn United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969) Arthur Jacob Arshawsky United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004) Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich Russian composer best known for his fifteen symphonies (1906-1975) Johan Julius Christian Sibelius Finnish composer (1865-1957) Shelby Silverstein United States poet and cartoonist remembered for his stories and poems for children (1932-1999) Paul Simon United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942) David Alfaro Siqueiros Mexican painter of murals depicting protest and revolution (1896-1974) Bedrich Smetana Czech composer (1824-1884) David Roland Smith United States sculptor (1906-1965) Stephen Sondheim United States composer of musicals (born in 1930) John Philip Sousa a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932) Chaim Soutine French expressionist painter (born in Lithuania) (1893-1943) Jan Steen Dutch genre painter (1626-1679) Edward Jean Steichen United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973) Saul Steinberg United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his caricatures of famous people (1914-1999) Frank Philip Stella United States minimalist painter (born in 1936) Alfred Stieglitz United States photographer (1864-1946) Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977) Strauss the Elder Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849) Strauss the Younger Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899) Richard Strauss German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949) Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971) Gilbert Charles Stuart United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828) Arthur Seymour Sullivan English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900) Thomas Sully United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872) George Szell United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970) Lorado Taft United States sculptor (1860-1936) William Henry Fox Talbot English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877) Thomas Tallis English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585) Yves Tanguy United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955) Joseph Deems Taylor United States composer and music critic (1885-1966) Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893) Georg Philipp Telemann German baroque composer (1681-1767) Sir John Tenniel English cartoonist (1820-1914) Virgil Garnett Thomson United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989) James Grover Thurber United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961) Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian painter (1696-1770) Jacopo Robusti Italian painter of the Venetian school (1518-1594) Tiziano Vecellio old master of the Venetian school (1490-1576) Mark Tobey United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976) Arturo Toscanini Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957) Henri Toulouse-Lautrec French painter who portrayed life in the cafes and music halls of Montmartre (1864-1901) John Trumbull American painter of historical scenes (1756-1843) Joseph Mallord William Turner English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851) Maurice Utrillo French painter noted for his paintings of Parisian street scenes (1883-1955) Sir Anthony Vandyke Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641) Vincent van Gogh Dutch Post-impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890) Edgar Varese United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965) Viktor Vasarely French painter (born in Hungary) who was a pioneer of op art (1908-1997) Giorgio Vasari Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574) Ralph Vaughan Williams English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958) Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez Spanish painter (1599-1660) Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi Italian operatic composer (1813-1901) Jan van der Meer Dutch painter renowned for his use of light (1632-1675) Paolo Veronese Italian painter of the Venetian school (1528-1588) Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun French painter noted for her portraits (1755-1842) Heitor Villa-Lobos Brazilian composer (1887-1959) Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Italian baroque composer and violinist (1675-1741) Maurice de Vlaminck French painter and exponent of fauvism (1876-1958) Jean Edouard Vuillard French painter (1868-1940) Wilhelm Richard Wagner German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883) Bruno Walter German conductor (1876-1962) Sir William Turner Walton English composer (1902-1983) Andy Warhol United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) Jean Antoine Watteau French painter (1684-1721) Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826) Max Weber United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961) Kurt Weill German composer; collaborated with Bertolt Brecht (1900-1950) Benjamin West English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820) Edward Weston United States photographer(1886-1958) James Abbott McNeill Whistler United States painter (1834-1903) Hiram King Williams United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953) Hugo Wolf Austrian composer (1860-1903) Grant Wood United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) Sir Henry Joseph Wood English conductor (1869-1944) Andrew Wyeth United States painter (born in 1917) 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 painter an artist who paints lensman, photographer someone who takes photographs professionally Pre-Raphaelite a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals graphic artist, printmaker an artist who designs and makes prints pyrographer an artist who practices pyrography romantic, romanticist an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism carver, sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker an artist who creates sculptures stylist an artist who is a master of a particular style surrealist an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism symbolist a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols Indiana, Robert Indiana United States pop artist (born 1928) abstract artist, abstractionist a painter of abstract pictures adapter, arranger, transcriber a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance camera operator, cameraman, cinematographer a photographer who operates a movie camera cartoonist a person who draws cartoons cantor, choirmaster, precentor the musical director of a choir colorist a painter able to achieve special effects with color commercial artist an illustrator who is supported by advertising composer someone who composes music as a profession conductor, director, music director the person who leads a musical group cubist an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism dauber an unskilled painter distortionist a painter who introduces distortions engraver a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate Fauve, fauvist a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism genre painter a painter of scenes from everyday life impressionist a painter who follows the theories of Impressionism landscapist someone who paints landscapes lithographer a printmaker who uses lithography miniaturist someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail muralist a painter of murals oil painter a painter who uses oil paints old master a great European painter prior to 19th century paparazzo a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines pavement artist someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money) pointillist a painter who uses the technique of pointillism limner, portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer a painter or drawer of portraits Post-impressionist, Postimpressionist an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism press photographer a photographer who works for a newspaper realist a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style scene painter, scenic artist an artist specializing in scenic subjects sculptress a woman sculptor sketcher someone who draws sketches virtuoso a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry watercolorist, watercolourist a painter who paints with watercolors creator a person who grows or makes or invents things
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