artistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɑː.tɪst/us/ˈɑːr.t̬ɪst/A2 someone who paints, draws, or makes sculptures:
Monet is one of my favourite artists.
someone who creates things with great skill and imagination:
He described her as one of the greatest film artists of the 20th century.
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- A good artist can produce a very realistic effect using only light and shade.
- The artist painted this picture using tiny brushstrokes.
- All these pictures were painted by local artists.
- He described her as one of the greatest film artists of the 20th century.
- In 15th-century Italy, artists rediscovered the rules of perspective.
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Artists
- agent
- caricature
- cartoonist
- cubism
- draftsman
- etcher
- expressionism
- graphic design
- illustrator
- impressionist
- painter
- pavement artist
- pointillism
- Pre-Raphaelite
- romanticism
- structuralism
- surrealism
- symbolist
- tagger
- the avant-garde
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