artistn.
/ˈɑːtɪst/, U.S. /ˈɑrdəst/ 1.
a. A person who pursues a craft or trade; a craftsperson, an artisan. Obsolete.In later use passing into sense 9.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman
wright?a695
craftyeOE
craftimanOE
craftmanc1275
wroughtc1275
master-mana1325
mister mana1325
craftsmana1382
man of craft1389
artificera1393
handcraftman?c1480
handcraftsman1485
mechanic1509
handcrafta1525
handicraftsman1530
artisana1538
handicraftmana1544
handicraft1547
artsman1551
artist1563
mechanician1570
tradesmana1591
mechanical1600
mechanist1606
Daedal?1614
blue apron1629
Daedalus1631
crafter1643
fitter1648
mystery-man1671
toolsman1821
fundi1860
tradie1912
craftspersona1917
1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. f. 6 All Artistes and workemen haue their subiectes, and matter on whyche they doe exercise there arte. So the Mason hath stones, and bryckes, whyche accordynge to hys arte, he heweth, squareth, cutteth, & proportioneth.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 70 He that knoweth not the vse of a worker is but a slender artist.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 155 Where once I scorn'd to stand, That earth is fitted by the fire and trade Of skilfull artists.
1655 in S. Hartlib Reformed Common-wealth Bees 33 There is not any one Mechanick,..in which there are not many errors, into which an Artist, that hath been long versed in the Practique, may hap to fall.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iii. iii. 113 A flat Press, where under Steel-wheels the Diamonds are fastned; and with its own Bort are worn into what Cut the Artist pleases.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 479 From his Anvil the lame Artist rose.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 283 By this time my shoe was mended, and satisfying the poor artist for his trouble,..I took my leave.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xii. 147 Greek artists in the imperial city forged That splendid armour.
1893 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. & Hist. Fine Art 8 468 A single native artist learned the trade [sc. pottery] and established himself at Nîmes..for the production of ordinary wares.
b. figurative. Obsolete.
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1650 E. Williams Virgo Triumphans 31 To see this untaught Artist [sc. the silkworm] spin out his transparent bowels..cannot but bring them to admiration.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 6 A swarm of Bees, artists of Hymettian Hony.
2. A person skilled or proficient at a particular task or occupation; an expert. Obsolete.In quot. 1793: a person skilled in practice, not only in theory.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person
slies1297
artist1594
skilla1657
technicist1828
technician1833
technist1858
hot dog1966
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiv. 253 From which two extreams, a king ought to be farther distant, than any other artist.
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy iii. v. sig. H3 v As some curious Artist, takes in sunder A Clocke, or Watch, when it is out of frame To bring't in better order.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iv. 125 I wil give you more directions concerning fishing; for I would fain make you an Artist . View more context for this quotation
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 224 The Mate was an excellent Sea Artist, and an experienc'd Sailor.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §76 A body of theoretic Men..yet there were also many real artists in this body.
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 95 Awkward whip will drive like the choicest artists of Cambridge.
3. A person skilled in medicine; a physician, a surgeon. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun]
physician?c1225
leecherc1374
practiserc1387
doctora1400
flesh-leecha1400
leechman14..
mediciner?a1425
miria1425
M.D.1425
medicine?c1450
practitioner?1543
minister1559
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artist1565
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medicianera1578
Aesculapius1586
Dra1593
pisspot1592
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pill-monger1706
medical man1784
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pill-gilder1824
therapeutist1830
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pill-peddler1855
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medicine man1866
pill pusher1879
therapist1886
doser1888
internist1894
pill-shooter1911
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vet1925
1565 J. Hall in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. sig. *.iii Galen that famous artist translated our art out of many tongues.
?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. C4v They must be Artistes, that are able to..resist the disease, by prouiding remedies.
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare v. 38 [His] legs cut off at the knees..were, without the help of any Artist, graffed on again.
1680 T. Otway Orphan i. 4 As calmly as the wounded Patient bears The Artist's hand, that Ministers his Cure.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. vii. 232 Luckily my wounds were not mortal, and I fell into the hands of a skilful artist.
1800 W. Rowley Cogent Reasons why Astringent Injections should be Banished 152 The burning precarious caustic..forms a deeper eschar than the skilfullest artist intended.
4. A person skilled in magic arts or occult sciences; an astrologer, an alchemist. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > astrology > [noun] > astrologer
astronomienc1330
astrologianc1400
astrologue1487
calker1535
mathematical1545
mathematiciana1576
mathematist1579
astrologer1581
artist1584
mathematicc1604
astrologomage1635
astrologist1683
the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > occultist
philosopher?1316
man of craft1389
Chaldean1581
artist1584
cabbalista1592
adeptus1650
adeptist1662
adept1673
occultist1876
1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx i. sig. C v I that cannot..calculate as a Wyzarde, or cast figure as an Arteste.
a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. F1 The Artists..that seeks the secrets of futurity.
1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 175 In vain do Artists endeavour the reduction of metalls into their first matter.
1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) i. xvii. 325 Volatile salts do rise from them, which would very much incommode the Artist if he should hold his nose over it.
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a. A person skilled in one of the seven liberal arts (see art n.1 9); a learned person; a scholar; a philosopher. Also: a Bachelor of Arts. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun]
uþwitec888
larewc900
learnerc900
witec900
wise manOE
leredc1154
masterc1225
readera1387
artificer1449
man of science1482
rabbi1527
rabbin1531
worthy1567
artsmanc1574
philologer1588
artist1592
virtuoso1613
sophist1614
fulla1616
scholastica1633
philologist1638
gnostic1641
scholarian1647
pundit1661
scientman1661
savant1719
ollamh1723
maulvi1776
pandect1791
Sabora1797
erudit1800
mallam1829
Gelehrter1836
erudite1865
walking encyclopaedia1868
Einstein1942
1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iv. 56 An ignorant man lesse shameth himself, lesse beguileth his frend, lesse disableth the Common-wealth, then a putatiue Artiste.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 23 The wise and foole, the Artist and vnread. View more context for this quotation
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. x. 67 He held dispute against all the Regents or Fellowes of Colledges, Artists or Masters of Arts.
1680 T. Lawson (title) A mite into the treasury, being a word to artists, especially the heptatechnists, the professors of the seven liberal arts.
a1731 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Gentleman (1890) 220 How many noble artists have we in the greatest and best branches of the Mathematicks.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Artist, in an academical sense, denotes a philosopher or proficient in the faculty of arts.
1774 P. V. Fithian Let. 12 Aug. (1965) 164 A sum in the Square-Root..is to your Pupils of as great importance, as the most abstruse problem in the Mathematicks to an able artist.
b. A person engaged in a practical science; a savant. Cf. artsman n. 4. Obsolete.In quot. 1667 perhaps influenced by the fact that astronomy was also one of the arts presided over by a Muse (see sense 6).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > scientist
man of science1482
natural philosopher?1541
secretary of nature1580
artsman1632
experimental philosopher1651
artist1665
scientific1738
sciencist1778
scientist1834
scientician1841
scientiate1847
scient1854
sciencer1871
natural scientist1872
specialist1918
boffin1945
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 119 Two Eye-glasses.., wrought by this Eminent Artist [sc. de Son] with a rare Steel-instrument of his own contrivance and workmanship.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 288 The Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views. View more context for this quotation
III. A person skilled in one of the creative or fine arts.
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a. A person skilled in any of the fine arts; (now more generally) a person who practises any creative art in which accomplished execution is informed by imagination.Formerly also: a person who cultivates any of the arts presided over by the Muses, i.e. history, poetry, comedy, tragedy, music, dancing, and astronomy.
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society > leisure > the arts > artist > [noun]
artist?1578
artiste1790
poet1839
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 43 The song by a skilful artist intoo hiz parts so sweetly sorted.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G4v The other Artists, and especially the Historian, affirming many things, can..hardly escape from many lyes.
1673 F. Kirkman Wits (new ed.) Pref. sig. A2 Such Penmen as were known to be the ablest Artists that ever this Nation produced, by Name, Shake-spear, Fletcher, Johnson, Shirley, and others.
1696 J. Evelyn Let. 17 Aug. in Diary & Corr. (1872) III. 362 For 'tis not the talents of every artist..to trace the architect as he ought.
1744 A. Pope Epist. to Several Persons ii. 34 Artists! who can paint or write, To draw the Naked is your true delight.
1774 Ambulator 140 The former..still remains, an illustrious monument of the ingenuity of the artist, and is the most magnificent embellishment in the rotundo.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) iii. 109 The true poet is always a true artist and words are the instruments of his art.
1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 190 [Homer] was too skilled an artist to bring freely upon the stage any figure which could vie with the subject of his song.
1931 J. Epstein in V. Ferguson Sayings of Week (1978) 7 I am not interested in being regarded as a benefactor of mankind. I am an artist.
1974 M. Tippett Moving into Aquarius 10 Creative artists break down into poets, painters, composers, etc.
2006 New Yorker 23 Oct. 14/1 Obsessed with notions of the artist as a solitary figure in the world.
b. figurative.
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1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 1 Mounsieur Bacchus,..singuler Artist in pewter language.
1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 229 God..as a wise Artist..stops all other egresses but that which fits his design.
1748 D. De Coetlogon Diogenes at Court 8 The Dexterity of that skilful Artist, Time.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory v, in Poems 62 Well hast thou done, great artist Memory.
1857 J. A. Heraud Judgem. of Flood (rev. ed.) iii. 205 The mighty Artist of the sky Stamped his own image on the soul of man.
1910 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. V. 66 One brass mausoleum on a mound (I knew it well) spared by the artist Time.
1996 P. Meinke Scars 1998 34 Each of us is convinced you love us the most how do you do it? I think you are an artist of the heart.
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a. A person skilled in the art of music; a performer of music in public, as a singer, player, conductor, etc. Cf. artiste n.recording artist: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > skilled
artist1590
virtuoso1714
virtuosa1754
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 21 All diuisions framde with such long discords..argues a bad eare, & a bungling Artist.
1655 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick i. 30 If an Instrument be sounded by an other who is an Artist.
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony Introd. sig. B The Masters of Harmonick Composure, and the skilfull Artists in Performance.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 405. ¶1 That Excellent Artist..having shewn us the Italian Musick in its Perfection.
1759 Age 7 The skilful Artist gives Music all its grace and power; yet he cannot extract harmony from the shattered fragments of a broken instrument.
1864 Musical Times 11 307/1 The young artist had every style of music perfectly at his command.
1947 Libr. Assoc. Rec. Sept. 224/1 The gramophone record library..comes at a time when there is a growing demand for music by the best artists.
1973 A. C. Boult My Own Trumpet vi. 58 I made a point of attending every concert given by local artists.
2004 fRoots Apr. 17/2 The band has collaborated with a range of artists.
b. A public performer or entertainer (cf. artiste n.); (hence) a person skilled in dramatic art; an actor.mime, performing artist, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performer > [noun]
performer1614
artist1714
exhibitionist1821
operatist1864
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun]
playera1400
game-player1533
comedy player1550
stage-player1561
actor1566
histrion?1566
comediant1568
representer1579
stager1580
presentera1586
histrio1589
stageman1589
gamester1596
player-man1596
Roscius1600
stagerite1602
theaterian1602
comedian1603
scenic1612
representant1622
play-actor1633
parta1643
histrionic1647
representator1653
artist1714
mummer1773
actor-manager1826
Thespian1827
impersonator1830
personifier1835
player-manager1895
thesp1962
luvvie1988
1714 Spectator No. 570. ⁋1 You may often see an Artist in the Streets gain a Circle of Admirers by carrying a long Pole upon his Chin.
1742 W. Clarke & W. Bowyer tr. J. Trapp Lect. Poetry xxiii. 293 Rope and Ladder-Dancers, and other wonderful Artists of that Class.
1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 17 Jan. 400/1 Whole hosts of..street artists are among the things departed... Where [are] the tight-rope dancers? the performers on stilts?
1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 453/3 When this fine artist is on the stage the play is funny, when he is off it is downright flat.
1901 Times 24 June 4/1 In order to appear..in good trim for performing, the artist must spend on dress, journey-money..and other extras.
1950 Times May 30 6/4 The invasion of the English variety stage by artists from abroad continues unabated.
1988 P. Brook Shifting Point (1989) 17 The thinner the text the better the opportunity for the artist to give it flesh and blood.
2002 Wasafiri Spring 47/2 A black artist performing a role usually associated with a white, male, Wildean dandy.
8. A person skilled in a visual art, as painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.body, commercial, poster, war artist, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist
craftsman?1529
artsman1591
artist1608
crafter1643
visual artist1902
painter-stainer1909
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 66 About his neck hangs a great Cornaline, Where some rare Artist [Fr. L'artisan] (curiousing vpon't) Hath deeply cut Times triple-formed Front.
1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 67 Hans Holbin who in all..Painting either in Oyle, Distemper, or Limning, was so generall an Artist, as never to follow any man, nor any one able to imitate him.
1676 J. Beaumont Let. 7 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1986) XII. 245 If I had ye conveniency of an Artist to helpe ye faylings of my pen wth his designe.
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 153 An eminent artist, who wrought up his pictures with the greatest accuracy.
1762 H. Walpole (title) Anecdotes of Painting in England, with some Account of the principal Artists.
1801 M. Edgeworth Prussian Vase in Moral Tales III. 17 The artist, who shall produce..the most beautiful vase of Berlin china.
1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing i. 24 Aristides..was the first artist who found a way to express the passions of the mind in the countenances of his figures.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ix. 186 She's a perfect Hebe; and if I were an artist, I would paint her.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxxiii. 312 Titian was a very famous artist who liked to paint red-haired women.
1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art xiv. 302 What is the relation between the artist's aesthetic experience and the painted canvasses?
1969 K. Clark Civilisation viii. 205 The psychological truth in Rembrandt's paintings goes beyond that of any other artist who has ever lived.
2002 S. Home 69 Things to do with Dead Princess vi. 72 The labour of unsuccessful writers, artists and musicians valorises the best-selling efforts of those who succeed.
9. A person who displays talent and creativity in a manual art, craft or in other skilled work. Cf. artiste n.make-up artist: see the first element.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] > artist
ornamentalist1796
ornamenter1822
ornamentor1825
artist1837
ornamentist1845
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman > artistic
artist1837
artiste1843
1837 Lancet 23 Dec. 47 Plastic surgery..a branch of surgery in which alone the operating surgeon becomes a real artist.
1863 Sat. Rev. 138 The definition of Ary Scheffer..sinks into nothing in contact with such phrases as photographic artist, artist in hair, artist in wax flowers, and the like.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 May (Suppl.) Artists from the National Training School of Cookery will show the public..how fish ought to be cooked.
1927 Amer. Mercury Jan. 94/1 A suburban artist of the spade with a front yard full of tagged retinosporas.
1957 V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-up iii. 37 The make-up kit is the artist's tool box and bag of tricks.
1990 Amiga User Internat. May 83/2 It really is quite different and stands as testimony to a programmer who is a true artist.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 27 Jan. 34/2 The first true artist of the ‘beautiful game’ was Leónidas da Silva.
IV. A person practised in artifice or some other (esp. disreputable) activity.
10. A person who practises artifice, deception, cunning, etc.; a schemer, rogue.In later use regional (U.S. and Irish English).
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > skilful person > at something reprehensible
artist1648
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > contrivance or machination > one who
Machiavellist1565
Machiavellian1566
Machiavel1571
designer1598
stratagemitor1602
stratagematist1609
angler1622
artist1648
intriguer1667
volpone1672
finesser1773
manoeuvrera1805
intriguist1830
schemer1846
Machiavelli1849
1648 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Descr. Three Princ. xxi. 294 The Hunter is a cunning Artist, which cometh then with..temporall honour and riches, and holdeth them before the poore soule.
a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 127 Those slippery wily artists, who can veere any whither with any wind.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 60 What ever you appoint to the young Artist that has done this Roguery; for I warrant he is an Artist, let it be who it will, he shall be paid.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. xxxii. 323 A lifetime's arts, in vain essay'd, Are bursting on their artist's head!
1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 75/1 Artist (American thieves'), an adroit rogue; a skilful gamester.
1944 J. Joyce Stephen Hero xvii. 56 Stephen told her to apply to McCann who was the champion of women. She..said with genuine dismay ‘Well, honestly, isn't he a dreadful-looking artist?’
1954 O. St. J. Gogarty It isn't this Time of Year at All vi. 47 ‘Artist’ in Dublin stands for a practical joker or a playboy; someone who prefers diversion to discipline; a producer, an ‘artifex’.
11. Originally U.S., Australian, and New Zealand slang. Frequently with preceding distinguishing noun: a person known for something (usually reprehensible or excessive).For more established compounds, as con artist, hot-air artist, piss artist, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > mode or manner of behaviour or conduct > one who behaves in a particular way
walker?a1425
whanger1807
artist1908
1908 H. C. Fisher A. Mutt 162 I'm on to all you bunk artists.
1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 9 One-star artist—a second lieutenant.
1928 J. Callahan Man's Grim Justice 4 He was known as one of the best short-change artists that ever stood behind a bar.
1949 D. M. Davin Roads from Home iii. 49 A real artist for the booze, isn't he?
1975 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 123 1081 To the wily half-truth artist, a few words might be addressed.
1990 P. Auster Music of Chance ii. 35 You might be a hell of a card player, but you also might be a bullshit artist.
Compounds
C1. Appositive, as artist-author, artist-craftsman, artist-director, etc.
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1735 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer I. Pref. sig. A3 I have here also divulg'd the Nostrum of the Artist Brewer.
1851 B. J. Lossing Pict. Field-bk. Revol. I. xviii. 428 Accompanied by Mr. Barber, the artist-author, in a covered wagon, I visited some of the points of interest about the city.
1894 G. B. Shaw Music in London 1890–94 (1931) III. 177 I still call for the artist-craftsman to give us once more a flute that is a flute, and a trumpet that is a trumpet.
1929 S. W. Cheney Theatre xxiii. 517 The development of artist-directors stimulated interest in the search for ‘form’ as an attribute of stage art.
1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation 13 A few individual artist-producers who have managed to combine a characteristic style of work with adequate business organization.
1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint iii. 195 Her description of modern art history's idea of the Romantic artist-hero is an Aunt Sally, a crude pasteboard effigy.
2000 G. Fyle Art, Power & Modernity i. 20 New hybrid identities such as artist-craftswoman or painter-etcher may condense on the borders of art worlds.
C2. General attributive, as artist class, artist hand, etc.
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1737 H. Baker tr. Virgil in Medulla Poetarum Romanorum II. 169 Whose Artist Hand did Jove and Pallas frame.
a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) II. xxvi. 226 A succession of pictures that would have enchanted an artist eye.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 141 The English are not musicians, and are diffident in general of the artist class.
1892 W. B. Scott Autobiogr. Notes I. 162 A pipe-rack like those in the artist clubs in Munich.
a1927 C. Mair Canad. Poems (1968) 225 The breed Of artist minds, wherein reflected lie The emanations of his deity.
1956 ‘D. W. Cory’ Homosexuality 194 There is no doubt that..a large number of the artist class, musical, literary or pictorial, belong to this description.
1992 Smithsonian Feb. 91/2 A swarm of young people dressed in regulation artist garb—faded jeans, funky berets.
2007 Voice 16 Apr. 23/2 No surprise then, that Fenda is totally uninterested in artist rivalry.
C3. Compounds with artist's.
artist's book n. a work of art in the form of a book; cf. livre d'artiste n.
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1961 Studio 162 118 The ideal ‘artist's book’ would probably be Goya's Caprichos.
1993 Newsweek 29 Mar. 64/2 Young rebels..started self-publishing what was called the ‘artist's book’—cheap offset litho editions of art jokes, such as deadpan images of gas stations.
2004 Time Out N.Y. 11 Nov. 73/3 He spends his days..working on an artist's book—a kind of visual scrapbook—featuring a striking collage of handwritten phrases and clipped excerpts from books and magazines.
artist's conk n. [ < the genitive of artist n. + conk n.2] = artist's fungus n.
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1938 J. S. Boyce Forest Pathol. xvii. 434 Fomes applanatus..the shelf fungus or artist's conk, causes a white mottled rot.
1999 Oikos 84 36/2 The primary host [of the forked fungus beetle] is the hoof fungus, but the artist's conk (Ganoderma applanatum) is also used.
artist's fungus n. [ < the genitive of artist n. + fungus n.] a reddish-brown bracket fungus, Ganoderma applanatum (family Ganodermataceae, class Hymenomycetes), of Eurasia and North America, which has a whitish lower (pore) surface on which scratches or other impressions remain permanently visible as dark brown marks.
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1966 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times 22 May 7 b/3 (caption) The artist's fungus has little commercial value.
2007 D. Chapman Wild about Cornwall viii. 54/1 On mature trees you might see the artist's fungus, an unusual bracket fungus with a chalky white underside in which it is possible to write or draw with a stick.
artist's impression n. (originally) a pictorial representation, typically a sketch; (later usually) an image created to convey the appearance of someone or something otherwise only remembered, envisaged, or imagined; spec. a picture of a person whom the police wish to find, created using witness descriptions.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > a picture > types of
emblemc1430
Flanders piece1659
night scenea1798
life study1837
colour picture1856
roundel1879
scrap1880
artist's impression1887
sleeve-picture1959
sleeve design1977
1887 Independent (N.Y.) 3 Feb. 7/1 [We] may judge it good as a picture, caring little whether or no the architectural forms introduced into it are faithfully represented or not, so long as the artist's impression of the scene is pictorially delightful.
1935 Scotsman 19 Feb. 11/2 The descriptions of great examples of architecture in England, Roman, Norman, and Gothic..are, to use an analogy, less like an architect's severe drawing than an artist's impression setting forth his subject in its proper environment.
1966 Guardian 19 Apr. 5/1 A sketch of a man Adelaide police want to interview resembles an artist's impression of a thin-faced man seen near the murder spot.
1999 Independent 26 July ii. 10/5 (caption) An artist's impression of the finished ‘climate’ gardens.
2010 Daily Tel. 19 Nov. 20/4 The gas planet, 400 times heavier than Earth, seen in an artist's impression, orbits a star in the Helmi stream, 2,000 light years away.
artist's proof n. [ < the genitive of artist n. + proof n.] (see proof n. 15c).
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artist-in-residence n. an artist formally attached to a university, college, community, etc., usually for a specified period; cf. residence n.1 Phrases 5b.
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1936 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 19 Sept. 1/3 Appointment of Curry as ‘artist in residence’ is unique in American educational circles.
1965 Economist 30 Oct. 499/2 Its money will also be used..to help symphony orchestras and support artists-in-residence at universities.
1998 Outlook 15 Feb. 17 I have a commitment to bring art to the people and as such show in as many public venues as possible. In 1993 I was artist-in-residence for the city of Burnaby.
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† artistadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Artistic, skilful.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > displaying or requiring skill
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craftyOE
craftful?c1335
craftsmanlike1547
skilfulc1595
artist1603
skilled1776
knowing1793
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxiv. 62 Nature..causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most vnarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions.
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