Artist. An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, 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.
Artiste is a variant used in English only in this context; this use is becoming rare. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term artist: A learned person or Master of Arts. One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry.
A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. A follower of a manual art, such as a mechanic. One who makes their craft a fine art. One who cultivates one of the fine arts-traditionally the arts presided over by the muses. The adjectival Latin form of the word, technicus,became the source of the English words technique, technology, technical. In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation: Calliope: chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry. Clio: muse of history. Erato: muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs. Euterpe: muse of music an
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.
Artiste is a variant used in English only in this context; this use is becoming rare. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term artist: A learned person or Master of Arts. One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry.
A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. A follower of a manual art, such as a mechanic. One who makes their craft a fine art. One who cultivates one of the fine arts-traditionally the arts presided over by the muses. The adjectival Latin form of the word, technicus,became the source of the English words technique, technology, technical. In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation: Calliope: chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry. Clio: muse of history. Erato: muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs. Euterpe: muse of music an
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