ARTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artist mean? 

• ARTIST (noun)
  The noun ARTIST has 1 sense:

1. a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

  Familiarity information: ARTIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

artist; creative person

Hypernyms ("artist" is a kind of...):

creator (a person who grows or makes or invents things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artist"):

classic (an artist who has created classic works)

Indiana; Robert Indiana (United States pop artist (born 1928))

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

surrealist (an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism)

stylist (an artist who is a master of a particular style)

carver; sculptor; sculpturer; statue maker (an artist who creates sculptures)

romantic; romanticist (an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism)

pyrographer (an artist who practices pyrography)

graphic artist; printmaker (an artist who designs and makes prints)

Pre-Raphaelite (a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals)

lensman; photographer (someone who takes photographs professionally)

painter (an artist who paints)

modernist (an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles)

illustrator (an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.))

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)

musician (artist who composes or conducts music as a profession)

Instance hyponyms:

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

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

Duchamp; Marcel Duchamp (French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968))

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

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

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

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

Derivation:

art (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)

art (a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation)

art (photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication)

artistic (satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities)

artistic (relating to or characteristic of art or artists)

 Context examples 

When I hadn't a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If you work as an artist, composer, chorographer, makeup artist, designer, or in any other artistic profession, you will find Neptune’s turn direct a big help for generating new ideas.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the French artist.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her sense of humour was really the artist’s instinct for proportion.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was not a photograph but an ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the exquisite mouth.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Like graffiti sprayed by an unknown artist, unexplained arc-shaped, reddish streaks are visible on the surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys.

(Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

This has been an exciting collaboration between artists and scientists, and it has produced results which may have a real-world impact, particularly for people who are experiencing high levels of stress.

(Sound of Nature Helps Us Relax, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“I have indeed been rash,” said the artist.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)