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A painter at work at St Justinian, Wales, 2021. An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only.
The more recent and specific sense of the word art as an abbreviation for creative art or fine art emerged in the early 17th century. [18] Fine art refers to a skill used to express the artist's creativity, or to engage the audience's aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of more refined or finer works of art.
List of modern artists; List of contemporary artists; List of 20th-century women artists; List of 21st-century women artists; List of sculptors; List of architects; List of graphic designers; List of illustrators
This is a list of artists who create contemporary art, i.e., those whose peak of activity can be situated somewhere between the 1970s (the advent of postmodernism) and the present day. Artists on this list meet the following criteria: The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by his/her peers or successors.
Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of art. [78] [79] [80] Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. [79] [80] A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation [78] [79] [80] but it is questionable whether such criticism can transcend prevailing ...
WikiArt (formerly known as WikiPaintings) is a visual art wiki, active since 2010. The developers are based in Ukraine. [1] Since 2010, the Editor in Chief of WikiArt is the Ukrainian art critic Kseniia Bilash. [2] In April 2022, access to WikiArt was restricted in Russia, by request of the General Prosecutor’s office, according to ...
Artists continue to make important works of art in a wide variety of styles and aesthetic temperaments—their merits are left to the public and the marketplace to judge. The Feminist art movement [15] began in the 1960s during the second wave of feminism. The movement sought to gain equal rights and equal opportunities for female artists ...
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...