Thursday, April 14, 2011

What is an Artist?

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).

From Dictionary:

A person who creates art.
A person who creates art as an occupation.
A person who is skilled at some activity.

A definition of Artist from Princeton.edu: creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination).

The present day concept of an 'artist':

Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist also may be defined unofficially as "a person who expresses him- or herself through a medium". The word is also used in a qualitative sense of, a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist

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