Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. It is also used in a qualitative sense of a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of 'high culture', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works that can be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics will define as artists those who produce art within a recognised or recognisable discipline.
The term is also used to denote highly skilled people in non-"arts" activities, as well — crafts, medicine, alchemy, mechanics, mathematics, defense (martial arts) and architecture, for example. The designation is applied to illegal activities, like a "scam artist". The term 'artist' could also refer to a con artist.
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About Scott Adams - The cartoonist who created the Dilbert comic strip tells about his own life.
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African American Artists - Profiles and examples of work by Bearden, Clark, Douglas, Hunter, Johnson, Lawrence and Tanner.
All About Art - Famous Artists - Includes some well known artist with short biographies and a list of famous paintings for each.
Encarta: African American Artists - Tells about Africans and their descendants have contributed to the visual arts, producing some of America's finest paintings, sculptures, collages, prints, and other works.
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography abou the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Frankenthaler, Helen - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the American painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Gentileschi, Artemisia - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Tuscan painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Giacometti, Alberto - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Swiss sculptor and painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Short biography about the Italian artist's life and paintings.
Hiroshige - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Japanese painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Jasper Johns - Biography of the abstract expressionist painter born in Augusta, Georgia.
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Short biography for the Spanish painter, ceramist, and sculptor from Hemingway's Paris.
Jose Albers - Biography and works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Josef Albers - Short biography about the artist-teacher with a strong interest in color theory.
Kawase Hasui - Scribbles Kids Art offers a short biography about this Japanese painter and woodblock artist.
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Klimt, Gustav - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Austrian painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Léger, Fernand - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Ma Yüan - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Chinese painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Magritte, René - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography abou the Belgian surrealist painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Milev, Ivan - Representative of Bulgarian Modernism. Biography and a gallery of works.
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Modigliani, Amedeo - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Italian painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Mondrian, Piet - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the Dutch painter. Includes bibliography and pronunciation key.
Moore, Henry - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the English sculptor.
Morisot, Berthe - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French impressionist painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Museum of Art Masters - Read about eleven of the greatest artists of all time. Biographies researched and written by the students of Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary.
My Hero: Artists - Short student-friendly biographies of more than two dozen painters, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, actors and designers who have shared their talents with the world.
Nevelson, Louise - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the American sculptor.
NGA Classroom: Calder Close-Up (1898 - 1976) - Information about the American artist who created many works of art including paintings, jewelry, stage sets, mobiles and stabiles.
Paolo Uccello - A short biography of the Renaissance artist prepared by Kaleena and Meghan, Grade 8, Riverdale Junior Secondary School.
Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton - Information about the famous painting, a short biography and activity sheet for children.
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Poussin, Nicolas - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a brief biography about the French painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
Rauschenberg, Robert - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides information a short biography about the American painter. Includes a pronunciation key.
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt - Information about the famous painting, a short biography and activity sheet for children.
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Thomas Moran - Consists of an illustrated article on the British landscape artist's life and work.
Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides information covering the life and works of the Spanish painter. Includes bibliography and pronunciation key.
Victor Vasarely - Scribbles Kids Art offers a short biography about this Hungarian painter who became known as the Father of Op Art
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Vuillard, Édouard - Fact Monster encyclopedia article provides a short biography about the French painter and lithographer. Includes a pronunciation key.
Wyeth Center at Farnsworth Museum - The Wyeth family has produced three generations of artists and illustrators. Brief biographies are presented here of N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) who illustrated children's books, Andrew Wyeth (born 1917), and Jamie Wyeth (born 1946).
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