An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts, 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 the entertainment 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 valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.
Wiktionary defines the noun 'artist' (Singular: artist; Plural: artists) as follows:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist":
Actors: Marco Nicoletti (director), Marco Nicoletti (writer), Marco Nicoletti (producer), Adriana Londoño (actress), Tiago Dias (actor), Marco Biglia (writer), Felipe Gini (producer), Sephora Venites (actress), Marco Biglia (actor), Helena Cerello (actress), Aleks Stojanoski (actor), Adrian Carvalho Doas Amaral (actor), Aleks Stojanoski (producer), Raphael Beltran (producer), Adrian Carvalho Doas Amaral (actor),
Plot: O POETA Marco Nicoletti's synopsis Junior would like to be a poet full-time, but he did not publish big thing, and is not really recognized in the Sao Paulo's poetry crowd. To contribute to maintain his small family (his wife Helena with whom he has an one-year-old baby girl, Aurora), he spends time showing apartments to customers who avoid them. As a matter of fact he's as much "successful" in the real estate as he is in the poetry... But the life in Sao Paulo is expensive, and his wife begin to worry about the incapacity of her husband to face reality... One day Junior purchases a ticket of the national lottery, and hide it in the shelves of the living room. Few days later, when he discovers that he eventually won the lottery, the ticket is lost... The Poet describes junior's increasing obsession for the lottery ticket, and its descent in the sheer madness. He eventually looks for the promised ticket in the dump of Sao Paulo (one of the largest on western world), and writes to the president Dilma, to get back the money he deserves. His desperate search allows us to make also an investigation on the emergent artists of contemporary Sao Paulo.
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Darby Vincent Alcoseba (actor), Darby Vincent Alcoseba (actor), Antonio Alcoseba (actor), Cierlito E. Tabay (director), Cierlito E. Tabay (editor), Antonio Alcoseba (actor), Vidal 'Undo' Alcoseba Jr. (actor), Rabe Rey E. Tabay (miscellaneous crew), Massimo La Magna (actor), Annette Aznar-Alfonso (actress), Mylene Po (actress), Misha Anissimov (producer), Moreno Benigno (director),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Darby Vincent Alcoseba (actor), Darby Vincent Alcoseba (actor), Antonio Alcoseba (actor), Cierlito E. Tabay (director), Cierlito E. Tabay (editor), Antonio Alcoseba (actor), Vidal 'Undo' Alcoseba Jr. (actor), Rabe Rey E. Tabay (miscellaneous crew), Massimo La Magna (actor), Annette Aznar-Alfonso (actress), Mylene Po (actress), Misha Anissimov (producer), Moreno Benigno (director),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Bear McCreary (actor), Constantine Nasr (producer), Constantine Nasr (writer), Michael Rooker (actor), Frank Darabont (actor), Frank Darabont (actor), Frank Darabont (actor), Jeffrey DeMunn (actor), Constantine Nasr (director), Gale Anne Hurd (actress), Skip Robinson (editor), Greg Nicotero (actor), Lennie James (actor), Andrew Lincoln (actor), Addy Miller (actress),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: John Merizalde (writer), John Merizalde (director), John Merizalde (editor), Ben Jackson (composer), Sam Affholter (actor), Eliza Seim (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Tobias Hansson (director), Anders Häger Jönson (writer), Anders Häger Jönson (director), Anders Häger Jönson (director), Anders Häger Jönson (actor), Tobias Hansson (actor), J-Ro (actor), Tobias Hansson (producer), David Åström (actor), Lorentz Berger (actor), Rebell Robert (actor), Alexis Almström (actor), Rosanna Munter (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jaime Mendoza-Nava (composer), Sarky Mouradian (director), Sarky Mouradian (writer), Lynne Guthrie (actress), Jono Kouzouyan (actor), Manuel Kichian (actor), Jack D. Boghossian (actor), John Kurkjian (producer), Sergio Murad (editor), Sosie Kodjian (actor), S. Sepian (actor), Levon Yergat (actor), Adam Aivazian (actor),
Plot: Raffi and Silva are a married couple with a son. After struggling to make ends meet, the couple have a fight. Silva and the baby son runaway leaving Raffi behind. Raffi is heartbroken and struggles with his dream to be a musician. After some time, he gets the big break and goes from an Armenian singing idol into a worldwide superstar while Silva sends the son to the orphanage while she works as a maid. Even though Raffi's got the money, fame and a Hollywood girlfriend, he's still misses the two people that are his life back in the old country: Silva and his son.
Keywords: armenian, independent-filmActors: Leonard Pietraszak (actor), Tadeusz Fijewski (actor), Józef Lodynski (actor), Andrzej Krasicki (actor), Ludwik Benoit (actor), Bronislaw Pawlik (actor), Krystyna Feldman (actress), Jan Rybkowski (director), Krystyna Kolodziejczyk (actress), Jan Rybkowski (writer), Stanislaw Bareja (director), Stanislaw Bareja (actor), Bogumil Kobiela (actor), Henryk Kluba (actor), Stefan Friedmann (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Olof Widgren (actor), Lennart Wallén (editor), Allan Edwall (actor), Arne Mattsson (director), Mika Waltari (writer), Mika Waltari (writer), Jarl Kulle (actor), Åke Lindman (actor), Gunnar Olsson (actor), Tapio Rautavaara (actor), Anneli Sauli (actress), Carl-Olof Alm (actor), Brita Öberg (actress), Lars Ekborg (actor), Margit Carlqvist (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Michael Hogan (actor), Walter Summers (director), Walter Summers (writer), Elissa Landi (actress), Elissa Landi (actress), Jerrold Robertshaw (actor), Carl Harbord (actor), Gerald Pring (actor), Evelyn Roberts (actor), H. Bruce Woolfe (producer), Hector Abbas (actor), Hubert Carter (actor), Leo Perutz (writer), Cecil Barry (actor), Charles Emerald (actor),
Genres: Drama,Artist, finding your brush then you paint my days
Holding my thoughts as they fade away
Knowing inside we are one, one
Poet, jotting the words that will light my ways
Slicing the bread that will be my pay
Knowing inside we are free, free
And all the endless pasts wouldn't spill the time
Our friendship lasts
Wouldn't you be mine
We'll make it through our ways
Believer, holding my hand as I walk alone
Believing where I stand and then I'm shown
Deep down inside we are one,
As we love our home
Keeper, knowing the words to the songs I sing
Smiling at me and my foolish things
Knowing inside we are one, one
Artist, finding your brush then you paint my ways
Holding my thoughts as they fade away
Knowing inside we are one, one
Lover, sharing the fruits from the tree of life
Knowing you'll care for me all my life
Knowing inside we are one, one
And all the endless pasts wouldn't spill the time
Our friendship lasts
Wouldn't you be mine