An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

Contents

• 1 Dictionary definitions
• 2 History of the term
• 3 The present day concept of an 'artist'
• 4 See also
• 5 Notes
• 6 References

Noun

artist c.

1. singer
2. performer

• Arts: Architecture: History: Architects (464)
• Arts: Graphic Design: Graphic Designers (30)
• Arts: Illustration: Historic Illustrators (178)
• Arts: Photography: Photographers: Masters (189)
• Arts: Visual Arts: Painting: Painters (5,415)
• Arts: Visual Arts: Sculpture: History: Sculptors (92)
• Kids and Teens: People and Society: Biography: Artists (355)
• Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Arts and Entertainment: Visual Arts: Artists (277)

• The National Gallery
  nationalgallery.org.uk
  Presents a wide list in alphabetic order providing biographies and images of their artwork. Includes historical background information on each artwork.
• The Essence of Line
  frenchdrawings.org
  Database of more than 900 works by artists such as Eugéne Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation.
• The Grand Tour: Venice & Rome in the 18th Century
  museum.oglethorpe.edu
  Oglethorpe University Museum exhibition of 18th century landscape and veduta paintings of Venice and Rome. This important exhibit included works by Canaletto, Panini and Ricci.