Advanced Vocabulary - Artists

Artists

artist noun

someone who makes paintings, sculptures etc.

artist noun

someone who writes, makes films, or writes music with great skill.

the avant-garde noun

the people who produce avant-garde music, art etc, or their style and attitudes.

the Bloomsbury Group

a group of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, who lived and worked in the early part of the 20th century.

caricaturist noun

someone who draws or writes caricatures.

cartoonist noun

someone who draws cartoons, especially as their job.

classicist noun

art, literature an artist or writer whose work is based on the principles of classicism.

draftsman noun

the American spelling of draughtsman.

draughtsman noun

someone who draws things.

futurist noun

art, literature a writer or artist who was part of the futurism movement.

illustrator noun

someone whose job is to draw pictures for books or magazines.

Impressionist noun

art a painter who works in the style of Impressionism.

master noun

art a famous artist.

miniaturist noun

art an artist who paints very small pictures.

minimalist noun

art, music a person who uses minimalism.

modernist noun

art, literature an artist, painter, writer etc who practises modernism.

old master noun

art the painter of an old master.

painter noun

an artist who paints pictures.

pavement artist noun

British someone who draws pictures on a pavement and hopes to get money from people who walk past.

primitive noun

art an artist from the period before the Renaissance.

primitive noun

art an artist who produces very simple works of art, or their work.

realist noun

art, literature an artist or writer whose work shows life as it really is.

Romantic noun

art, literature a writer, artist, or composer whose work is based on the tradition of romanticism.

school noun

a group of writers, artists etc whose work or ideas are similar.

sculptor noun

art an artist who makes sculptures.

cubist noun // cubism noun

       (often capital) a French school of painting, collage, relief, and sculpture initiated in 1907 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, which amalgamated viewpoints of natural forms into a multifaceted surface of geometrical planes.

expressionist adjective, noun

        an artistic and literary movement originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, which sought to express emotions rather than to represent external reality: characterized by the use of symbolism and of exaggeration and distortion.

formalist noun

        an artistic way of work by the artist.

pointillist noun

        an artistic way of work where artist are focus in little details rather the whole artistic job.

postmodernist noun

        a style and movement in art, architecture , literature, etc. in the late 20th century that reacts against modern styles, for example by mixing features from traditional and modern styles.

pre-Raphaelite noun

        a member of a group of British 19th century artists who painted in a style similar to Italian artists of the 14th and 15th centuries, before the time of Raphael. ( especially of a woman ) looking like a person in a painting by one of the Pre-Raphaelites , for example with pale skin and long thick dark red hair.

printmaker noun

        a person who makes print, esp a craftsman or artist in this field.

surrealist noun 

       a 20th century style and movement in art and literature in which images and events that are not connected are put together in a strange or impossible way, like a dream, to try to express what is happening deep in the mind.

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