ARTIST
WHAT IS AN ARTIST?
An artist is apersonengaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum ofactivities related to creating art, practicing thearts, 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 theentertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.
ARTIST STATEMENT
People often ask me questions about my works of art like, "What do you call your style?" It’s a kind of "pure color reality" that represents lyrical motion using paint and imagery. We, as human beings, can best understand art and my works of art when we think of them as "rainbowed abstract collages" a form of art in which various materials (in this case shapes as a direct result of sunlight) become a combination and collections of sun lite things. Strikingly unique! Being abstract in and with art and manipulating images, color, brush storks, geometric shapes, human figures, objects of nature and earth release a visual illustration that has an internal dynamic that is new in this genre. Regardless to where the medium and brush strokes are place whether on canvas, paper, board, silk, and any material that I deem paintable it is always unique in the end. In my work I strive for a steady improvement of theme, perspective and value in my work. I work hard and on most items fast producing lots of art in a short period of time. When beginning a work of art my focus is on the highest quality and prophecies. Easy painting or formalism and abstraction in painting I simply love. Participating in mind, body, spirit and heart is the evidence that allows me to not only learn and explore the process of art but also allows me to discover my own freedom and a freedom of style in my work, my work habits and processes.
People often ask me questions about my works of art like, "What do you call your style?" It’s a kind of "pure color reality" that represents lyrical motion using paint and imagery. We, as human beings, can best understand art and my works of art when we think of them as "rainbowed abstract collages" a form of art in which various materials (in this case shapes as a direct result of sunlight) become a combination and collections of sun lite things. Strikingly unique! Being abstract in and with art and manipulating images, color, brush storks, geometric shapes, human figures, objects of nature and earth release a visual illustration that has an internal dynamic that is new in this genre. Regardless to where the medium and brush strokes are place whether on canvas, paper, board, silk, and any material that I deem paintable it is always unique in the end. In my work I strive for a steady improvement of theme, perspective and value in my work. I work hard and on most items fast producing lots of art in a short period of time. When beginning a work of art my focus is on the highest quality and prophecies. Easy painting or formalism and abstraction in painting I simply love. Participating in mind, body, spirit and heart is the evidence that allows me to not only learn and explore the process of art but also allows me to discover my own freedom and a freedom of style in my work, my work habits and processes.
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ARTIST - What is an Artist?
An artist is apersonengaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum ofactivities related to creating art, practicing thearts, 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 theentertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.
Definition of Artist (continued)
Dictionary definitions
the noun 'artist' (Singular: artist; Plural: artists) as follows:
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History of the termAlthough the Greek word "techně" is often mistranslated as "art," it actually implies mastery of any sort of craft. The Latin-derived form of the word is "tecnicus", from which the English words technique, technology,technical are derived.
In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation:
The word art is derived from the Latin "ars", which, although literally defined means, "skill method" or "technique", holds a connotation of beauty.
During the Middle Ages the word artist already existed in some countries such as Italy, but the meaning was something resembling craftsman, while the word artesanwas still unknown. An artist was someone able to do a work better than others, so the skilled excellency was underlined, rather than the activity field. In this period some "artisanal" products (such as textiles) were much more precious and expensive than paintings or sculptures.
The first division into major and minor arts dates back toLeon Battista Alberti's works (De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills (even if in other forms of art there was a project behind).[2]
With the Academies in Europe (second half of 16th century) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.
Many contemporary definitions of "artist" and "art" are highly contingent on culture, resisting aestheticprescription, in much the same way that the featuresconstituting beauty and the beautiful, cannot be standardized easily without corruption into kitsch.
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the noun 'artist' (Singular: artist; Plural: artists) as follows:
- A person who creates art.
- A person who creates art as an occupation.
- A person who is skilled at some activity.
- 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 studyor 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
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History of the termAlthough the Greek word "techně" is often mistranslated as "art," it actually implies mastery of any sort of craft. The Latin-derived form of the word is "tecnicus", from which the English words technique, technology,technical are derived.
In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation:
- Calliope (the 'beautiful of speech'): chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry
- Clio (the 'glorious one'): muse of history
- Erato (the 'amorous one'): muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs
- Euterpe (the 'well-pleasing'): muse of music and lyric poetry
- Melpomene (the 'chanting one'): muse of tragedy
- Polyhymnia or Polymnia (the '[singer] of manyhymns'): muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric, singing, and rhetoric
- Terpsichore (the '[one who] delights in dance'): muse of choral song and dance
- Thalia (the 'blossoming one'): muse of comedy andbucolic poetry
- Urania (the 'celestial one'): muse of astronomy
The word art is derived from the Latin "ars", which, although literally defined means, "skill method" or "technique", holds a connotation of beauty.
During the Middle Ages the word artist already existed in some countries such as Italy, but the meaning was something resembling craftsman, while the word artesanwas still unknown. An artist was someone able to do a work better than others, so the skilled excellency was underlined, rather than the activity field. In this period some "artisanal" products (such as textiles) were much more precious and expensive than paintings or sculptures.
The first division into major and minor arts dates back toLeon Battista Alberti's works (De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills (even if in other forms of art there was a project behind).[2]
With the Academies in Europe (second half of 16th century) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.
Many contemporary definitions of "artist" and "art" are highly contingent on culture, resisting aestheticprescription, in much the same way that the featuresconstituting beauty and the beautiful, cannot be standardized easily without corruption into kitsch.
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