Artist

An artist is a person who creates art. This word is used most often for person and activities of 'high culture'. That is for example drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music. Sometimes a person who is very good at their job is called an artist, even if it is not considered as art. A scientist or mathematician can be called an artist.
Dictionary definitions
Wiktionary defines the noun 'artist' (one artist, two artists) as follows:
A person who creates (makes) art.
A person who creates art as an occupation, that means the person earn their money with art.
A person who is skilled at some activity, that means a person who is very good in something.
History of the term
In ancient Greece there was the word "Techne" which is often translated as art. From this word comes "technical" and America is now the root of words such as technical, technology, etc. The seven muses were the gods of artists in the seven fields of human excellence: * Epic and lyric * History * Choral singing and poetry of love * Music * Tragedy * Religious Hymns * Gay poetry, poetry and rustic comedy * Dance * Astronomy and Geometry.
The word comes from Latin art "ars", that literally means skill method or technique, combined with the beauty of the objects produced. In the Middle Ages already existed the word artist, although its meaning is closer to what we now call the craftsman.
The present day concept of an artist
Concept art expresses a series of creations, called classical arts (painting, sculpture, literature, dance, music, architecture and cinema). However, considering someone as an artist is not limited to a series of works or concrete creations.
An artist is a person exercising the arts and produce artistic works. The artist is someone who has a special sensitivity to create a work or activity. There is no specific classification of what are an artist's own activities .In any case, the concept artist implies knowledge of art and at the same time, is a craft that can be professional but not necessarily. The artist seeks to create an object or activity that has a component of beauty. Very beautiful is one aspect cherished by the creators, but not only that. It also seeks to communicate feelings and ideas and form their own world.
Painter
An artist is a person able to put their point of view, their way of seeing the world and feel things on a canvas, a sheet or paper. An artist is a dreamer, is a poet, he is a speaker, is someone provided with sensibility sufficient or necessary to make us see things through their eyes.
Examples of art and artists
Abstract: Jackson Pollock
Actress: Greta Garbo
Animation: Walt Disney
Architect: Antoni Gaudi
Ballet: Margot Fonteyn
BioArt: Hunter O'Reilly
Calligraphy: Rudolf Koch
Ceramics: Grayson Perry
Choreographer: Martha Graham
Comics: Will Eisner
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conceptual art: Sol LeWitt
Cubism: Pablo Picasso
Dancer: Isadora Duncan
Designer: Arne Jacobsen
Doll Maker: Greer Lankton
Entertainer: PT Barnum
Fashion designer: Alexander McQueen
Fluxus art: Yoko Ono
Game designer: Peter Molyneux
Graphic Artist: Ludwig Merwart
Graphic designer: Peter Saville
Horticulture: Andre le Notre
Illusionist: Houdini
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Impressionism: Claude Monet
Industrial designer: Pininfarina
Jewelry: Faberge
Landscape architect: Frederick Law Olmsted
Minimalist artist: Donald Judd
Movie director: Sergei Eisenstein
Muralist: Diego Rivera
Musician: John Lennon
New Media: Genco Gulan
Novelist: Charles Dickens
Musical instrument maker: Stradivari
Orator: Cicero
Outsider Art: Nek Chand
Painter: Rembrandt van Rijn
Painter: Mr. Glowa
Performance Art: Carolee Schneemann
Photographer: Bill Brandt
Photomontage: John Heartfield
Pianist: Glenn Gould
Playwright: Alan Bennett
Poet: Pablo Neruda
Potter: Bernard Leach
Printmaker: William Hogarth
Sculptor: Michelangelo Buonarotti
Singer: Maria Callas
Street Art: Banksy
Typographer: Eric Gill
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