artist

English

 artist on Wikipedia

Artist João Carqueijeiro in a workshop.

Etymology

From French artiste, from Late Latin artista, from ars (“art”). Doublet of artiste. Displaced native Old English cræftiga. By surface analysis, art +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːtɪst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.tɪst/, [ˈɑɹ.ɾɪst]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪst

Noun

artist (plural artists)

1. A person who creates art.
   1. A person who creates art as an occupation.
2. (often in combination) A person who is skilled at some activity.
3. A recording artist.
4. A person who creates visual art (in contrast to literature, music etc.)

Hyponyms

(a person who creates art):

• animator
• drawer
• painter
• sculptor

• • See Category:en:Artists.

Derived terms

(a person who creates art):

• airtist
• antiartist
• arch-artist
• artistamp
• artistdom
• artiste
• artistess
• artistlike
• artistly
• artistry
• artist's conception
• artist's conk
• artist's fungus
• artist's impression
• artist's proof
• ASMRtist
• balloon artist
• bread-artist
• concept artist
• cover artist
• cyberartist
• dartist
• drag artist
• ecoartist
• fine artist
• foley artist
• food artist
• graffiti artist
• graphic artist
• land artist
• latte artist
• make-up artist
• microartist
• mixed martial artist
• nonartist
• paleoartist
• pavement artist
• performance artist
• photo artist
• pixel artist
• recording artist
• sidewalk artist
• starving artist
• street artist
• tattoo artist
• visual artist
• voice artist
• war artist

(a person who is skilled at some activity):

• booze artist
• bullshit artist
• clutch artist
• con artist
• crap artist
• escape artist
• grog artist
• jab artist
• martial artist
• pavement artist
• pickup artist
• piss artist
• quick-change artist
• scam artist
• trapeze artist
• wheel artist

(other terms (unsorted)):

• confidence artist
• face artist
• graf artist
• handcuff artist
• makeup artist
• marine artist
• outsider artist
• photographic artist
• sound artist
• takeover artist
• turnaround artist

Related terms

• art
• artisan
• artiste
• artistic

Descendants

• → Japanese: アーティスト (ātisuto)

Translations

person who creates art

Afrikaans: kunstenaar Albanian: artist (sq) m, artiste (sq) f, piktor (sq) m, piktore (sq) f Arabic: فَنَّان m (fannān), فَنَّانَة f (fannāna); رَسَّام m (rassām), رَسَّامَة f (rassāma) Egyptian Arabic: فنان m (fannān) Armenian: նկարիչ (hy) (nkaričʻ) Asturian: artista m or f Azerbaijani: rəssam (az) Bashkir: рәссам (rəssam) (painter) Basque: artista Belarusian: маста́к m (masták), маста́чка f (mastáčka), маля́р m (maljár), маля́рка f (maljárka), арты́ст m (artýst), арты́стка f (artýstka) Bengali: শিল্পী (bn) (śilpi) Bulgarian: худо́жник (bg) (hudóžnik), худо́жничка f (hudóžnička), арти́ст (bg) m (artíst), арти́стка (bg) f (artístka) Burmese: ပန်းချီဆရာ (my) (pan:hkyihca.ra) Catalan: artista (ca) m or f Chechen: суртдуьллург (surtdüllurg) Chinese: Mandarin: 藝術家 / 艺术家 (zh) (yìshùjiā), 畫家 / 画家 (zh) (huàjiā), 美術家 / 美术家 (zh) (měishùjiā) Czech: umělec (cs) m, umělkyně (cs) f, malíř (cs) m, malířka (cs) f Danish: kunstner (da) c Dutch: kunstenaar (nl) m, kunstenares (nl) f Elfdalian: konstnär m Esperanto: artisto Estonian: kunstnik (et), taidur Faroese: listamaður m, listakona f Finnish: taiteilija (fi), artisti (fi) French: artiste (fr) m or f, peintre (fr) m or f, peintresse (fr) f Galician: artista (gl) m or f Georgian: მხატვარი (mxaṭvari), ხელოვანი (xelovani) German: Künstler (de) m, Künstlerin (de) f, Maler (de) m, Malerin (de) f Greek: καλλιτέχνης (el) m (kallitéchnis), δημιουργός (el) m or f (dimiourgós) Greenlandic: eqqumiitsuliortoq Hebrew: אֳמָן (he) m (omán), אָמָּן (he) m (omán) Hindi: कलाकार (hi) m (kalākār), फ़नकार m (fankār), शिल्पी (hi) m (śilpī), हुनरमंद (hi) m (hunarmand), आर्टिस्ट (hi) (ārṭisṭ), चित्रकार (hi) m (citrakār) Hungarian: művész (hu) Hunsrik: Kinstler m, Kinstlerin f Icelandic: listamaður (is) m, listakona f Indonesian: seniman (id), artis (id) Irish: ealaíontóir m Italian: artista (it) m or f Japanese: 芸術家 (ja) (げいじゅつか, geijutsuka), 画家 (ja) (がか, gaka), アーティスト (ja) (ātisuto) Kazakh: суретші (suretşı), әртіс (ärtıs) Khmer: សិល្បករ (km) (səlləpaʼkɑɑ), វិចិត្រករ (km) (vicetraʼkɑɑ) Korean: 화가(畫家) (ko) (hwaga) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ھونەرمەند (ckb) (hunermend) Northern Kurdish: hunermend (ku) m Kyrgyz: художник (ky) (hudojnik), көркөмөнөрчү (körkömönörcü) Lao: ສິນລະປິນ (lo) (sin la pin), ຈິດຕະກອນ (chit ta kǭn) Latin: artifex (la) f Latvian: mākslinieks m, māksliniece f Lithuanian: menininkas m, artistas m Luxembourgish: Kënschtler m, Kënschtlerin f Macedonian: уметник m (umetnik), уметничка f (umetnička), уметница f (umetnica) Malay: seniman, artis Maltese: artist m Maori: ringatoi, rehetoi Marathi: कलाकार m (kalākār) Mongolian: Cyrillic: зураач (mn) (zuraač), жүжигчин (mn) (žüžigčin) Norman: artiste m or f Northern Sami: dáiddár Norwegian: Bokmål: kunstner (no) m Nynorsk: kunstnar m Occitan: artista (oc) m or f Ojibwe: mazinibii'igewinini Old English: cræftiga m Ottoman Turkish: صنعتكار (sanʼatkâr) Persian: هنرمند (fa) (honarmand), آرتیست (fa) (ârtist), نقاش (fa) (naqqâš), نگارگر (fa) (negârgar) Polish: artysta (pl) m, artystka (pl) f, twórca (pl) m, twórczyni (pl) f, malarz (pl) m, malarka (pl) f Portuguese: artista (pt) m or f Romanian: artist (ro) m, artistă (ro) f Romansch: artist m, artista f Russian: худо́жник (ru) m (xudóžnik), худо́жница (ru) f (xudóžnica), арти́ст (ru) m (artíst), арти́стка (ru) f (artístka) Sardinian: artista f Scottish Gaelic: dealbhadair m, dealbhaiche m, ealantair m, neach-ealain m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у̀метнӣк m, у̀мјетнӣк m, у̀метница f, у̀мјетница f Roman: ùmetnīk (sh) m, ùmjetnik (sh) m, ùmetnīca f, ùmjetnica (sh) f Slovak: umelec m, umelkyňa f, maliar (sk) m, maliarka f Slovene: umetnik (sl) m, umetnica f, slikar (sl) m, slikarka f Spanish: artista (es) m or f Swahili: msanii (sw), mwanasanaa Swedish: artist (sv) m, konstnär (sv) c Tagalog: dalubsining Tajik: ҳунарманд (hunarmand), рассом (tg) (rassom), наққош (naqqoš), суратгар (suratgar) Tatar: рәссам (tt) (rässam) Telugu: కళాకారుడు (te) (kaḷākāruḍu) Thai: ศิลปิน (th) (sǐn-lá-bpin), จิตรกร (jìt-dtrà-gɔɔn) Tibetan: རི་མོ་མཁས་པ (ri mo mkhas pa) Turkish: sanatçı (tr), dörütçü, dörütmen, ressam (tr) Turkmen: suratçy, hudožnik Ukrainian: худо́жник m (xudóžnyk), худо́жниця f (xudóžnycja), ма́ля́р m (máljár), ма́ля́рка f (máljárka), арти́ст (uk) m (artýst), арти́стка (uk) f (artýstka), мите́ць m (mytécʹ), мистки́ня f (mystkýnja) Urdu: فنکار m (fankār), فنکارہ f (fankārā) Uyghur: سەنئەتكار (sen'etkar), رەسسام (ressam) Uzbek: rassom (uz), xudojnik, sanatkor Vietnamese: họa sĩ (vi) Volapük: (♂♀) lekanan (vo), (♂) hilekanan, (♀) jilekanan Welsh: arlunydd m Yiddish: קינסטלער m (kinstler), קינסטלערין f (kinstlerin), אַרטיסט m (artist), אַרטיסטקע f (artistke)

person who creates art as an occupation

Albanian: artist (sq) m, artiste (sq) f Arabic: فَنَّان m (fannān), فَنَّانَة f (fannāna) Armenian: արվեստագետ (hy) (arvestaget) Asturian: artista m or f Belarusian: маста́к m (masták), маста́чка f (mastáčka), маля́р m (maljár), маля́рка f (maljárka) Bengali: শিল্পী (bn) (śilpi) Bulgarian: худо́жник (bg) (hudóžnik), худо́жничка f (hudóžnička) Catalan: artista (ca) m or f Chechen: суртдуьллург (surtdüllurg) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: umělec (cs) m, umělkyně (cs) f Dutch: kunstenaar (nl) m, kunstenares (nl) f, artiest (nl) m Finnish: taiteilija (fi) French: artiste (fr) m or f Galician: artista (gl) m or f Georgian: მხატვარი (mxaṭvari), ხელოვანი (xelovani) German: Künstler (de) m, Künstlerin (de) f Greek: καλλιτέχνης (el) m (kallitéchnis) Hebrew: אמן (he) m Hindi: फनकार (hi) m (phankār), शिल्पी (hi) m (śilpī), हुनरमंद (hi) m (hunarmand), कलाकार (hi) m (kalākār), आर्टिस्ट (hi) m (ārṭisṭ) Hungarian: művész (hu) Indonesian: seniman (id) Irish: ealaíontóir m Italian: artista (it) m or f Japanese: 芸術家 (ja) (げいじゅつか, geijutsuka) Latin: artifex (la) m Macedonian: уметник m (umetnik) Marathi: कलाकार m (kalākār) Norman: artiste m or f Northern Sami: dáiddár Ottoman Turkish: صنعتكار (sanʼatkâr) Persian: هنرمند (fa) (honarmand) Polish: artysta (pl) m, artystka (pl) f Portuguese: artista (pt) m or f Romanian: artist (ro) m, artistă (ro) f Russian: худо́жник (ru) m (xudóžnik), худо́жница (ru) f (xudóžnica) Scottish Gaelic: dealbhadair m, dealbhaiche m, ealantair m, neach-ealain m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: уметник m, уметница f, умјетник m, умјетница f Roman: ùmetnīk (sh) m, ùmetnīca f, ùmjetnik (sh) m, ùmjetnica (sh) f Slovak: umelec m, umelkyňa f Slovene: umetnik (sl) m, umetnica f Spanish: artista (es) m or f Swahili: msanii (sw) Telugu: కళాకారుడు (te) (kaḷākāruḍu) Turkish: sanatçı (tr), dörütçü, dörütmen Ukrainian: худо́жник m (xudóžnyk), худо́жниця f (xudóžnycja) Volapük: (♂♀) lekanan (vo), (♂) hilekanan, (♀) jilekanan

skilled person

Albanian: artist (sq) m, artiste (sq) f Armenian: արվեստագետ (hy) (arvestaget) Asturian: artista m or f Azerbaijani: sənətkar (az), usta (az) Belarusian: ма́йстар m (májstar), ма́йстарка f (májstarka) Bulgarian: ма́йстор (bg) m (májstor), ма́йсторка f (májstorka) Catalan: artista (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: artiest (nl) m Finnish: taitaja (fi) Galician: artista (gl) m or f German: Künstler (de) m, Künstlerin (de) f Greek: καλλιτέχνης (el) m (kallitéchnis) Hindi: कलाकार (hi) m (kalākār) Irish: máistir m, ceardaí m Italian: artista (it) m or f Japanese: 熟練者 (ja) (じゅくれんしゃ, jukurensha) Macedonian: мајстор (mk) m (majstor), мајсторка f (majstorka) Norwegian: Bokmål: (performer) artist (no) m Nynorsk: (performer) artist m Polish: artysta (pl) m, artystka (pl) f, fachura (pl) m Portuguese: artista (pt) m or f Romanian: artist (ro) m, artistă (ro) f Russian: ма́стер (ru) m (máster), мастери́ца (ru) f (masteríca) (feminine form is less common), уме́лец (ru) m (umélec) (somewhat dated), уме́лица (ru) f (umélica) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: уметник m, уметница f, умјетник m, умјетница f Roman: ùmetnīk (sh) m, ùmetnīca f, ùmjetnik (sh) m, ùmjetnica (sh) f Spanish: artista (es) m or f Swahili: msanii (sw) Telugu: కళాకారుడు (te) (kaḷākāruḍu) Ukrainian: ма́йстер (uk) m (májster), ма́йстерка f (májsterka), мите́ць m (mytécʹ), мистки́ня f (mystkýnja)

Adjective

artist (comparative more artist, superlative most artist)

1. (archaic) Artistic.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , vol.1, ch.24:

     Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions.

Anagrams

• Rattis, Strait, atrist, ittars, star it, strait, strati, traits

Albanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin artista or French artiste, ultimately from Latin ars.

Noun

artist m (plural artistë, definite artisti, definite plural artistët); feminine equivalent artiste

1. artist (all senses)

Declension

Declension of artist

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	artist	artisti	artistë	artistët
accusative		artistin
dative	artisti	artistit	artistëve	artistëve
ablative			artistësh

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
• “artist”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “artist”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɑrˈtist]

• Audio (Baku):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ar‧tist

Noun

artist (definite accusative artisti, plural artistlər)

1. actor, performer

   Xalq Artisti (title) ― People's Artist

Declension

Declension of artist

	singular	plural
nominative	artist	artistlər
definite accusative	artisti	artistləri
dative	artistə	artistlərə
locative	artistdə	artistlərdə
ablative	artistdən	artistlərdən
definite genitive	artistin	artistlərin

Possessive forms of artist

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	artistim	artistlərim
sənin (“your”)	artistin	artistlərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	artisti	artistləri
bizim (“our”)	artistimiz	artistlərimiz
sizin (“your”)	artistiniz	artistləriniz
onların (“their”)	artisti or artistləri	artistləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	artistimi	artistlərimi
sənin (“your”)	artistini	artistlərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	artistini	artistlərini
bizim (“our”)	artistimizi	artistlərimizi
sizin (“your”)	artistinizi	artistlərinizi
onların (“their”)	artistini or artistlərini	artistlərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	artistimə	artistlərimə
sənin (“your”)	artistinə	artistlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	artistinə	artistlərinə
bizim (“our”)	artistimizə	artistlərimizə
sizin (“your”)	artistinizə	artistlərinizə
onların (“their”)	artistinə or artistlərinə	artistlərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	artistimdə	artistlərimdə
sənin (“your”)	artistində	artistlərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	artistində	artistlərində
bizim (“our”)	artistimizdə	artistlərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	artistinizdə	artistlərinizdə
onların (“their”)	artistində or artistlərində	artistlərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	artistimdən	artistlərimdən
sənin (“your”)	artistindən	artistlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	artistindən	artistlərindən
bizim (“our”)	artistimizdən	artistlərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	artistinizdən	artistlərinizdən
onların (“their”)	artistindən or artistlərindən	artistlərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	artistimin	artistlərimin
sənin (“your”)	artistinin	artistlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	artistinin	artistlərinin
bizim (“our”)	artistimizin	artistlərimizin
sizin (“your”)	artistinizin	artistlərinizin
onların (“their”)	artistinin or artistlərinin	artistlərinin

Derived terms

• artistlik

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From French artiste

Noun

artist

1. artist, actor

Declension

Declension of artist

	singular	plural
nominative	artist	artistler
genitive	artistniñ	artistlerniñ
dative	artistke	artistlerge
accusative	artistni	artistlerni
locative	artistte	artistlerde
ablative	artistten	artistlerden

References

• “artist”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin artista (“artist”), from ars (“art”).

Noun

artist m (plural artiscj)

1. artist

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

artist

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From French artiste.

Noun

artist m (definite singular artisten, indefinite plural artister, definite plural artistene)

1. an artist (performer)

References

• “artist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French artiste.

Noun

artist m (definite singular artisten, indefinite plural artistar, definite plural artistane)

1. an artist (performer)

References

• “artist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French artiste. By surface analysis, artă +‎ -ist.

Noun

artist m (plural artiști)

1. artist

Declension

Declension of artist

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	artist	artistul		artiști	artiștii
genitive-dative	artist	artistului		artiști	artiștilor
vocative	artistule			artiștilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• àrtista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Etymology

From French artiste, from Latin artista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎrtist/
• Hyphenation: ar‧tist

Noun

àrtist m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ртист)

1. artist

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	artist	artisti
genitive	artista	artista
dative	artistu	artistima
accusative	artista	artiste
vocative	artiste	artisti
locative	artistu	artistima
instrumental	artistom	artistima

Declension of artist

References

• “artist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

artist c

1. an artist (who does not create works of art in the usual sense (and, often, performs in front of an audience) – most commonly a musician)
   • 1989, Magnus Uggla, Anders Henriksson (lyrics and music), “Jag mår illa [I feel sick]”, in 35-åringen [The 35-year-old]‎, performed by Magnus Uggla:

     Jag sitter efter maten och läser bland citaten i raden utav skvallermagasin. Där vimlar vokalister, skådisar, artister, som älskar visa upp sitt fula flin.

     I'm sitting after dinner ["the food" – a meal, usually dinner] and reading among the quotes in the row [in the sense of range] of gossip magazines. There vocalists, actors, artists abound [would normally have an och (“and”) in Swedish as well], who love showing off their ugly grin.

   1. a performer

      cirkusartister

      circus performers

Usage notes

An artist who creates works of art in the usual sense, like a painter or sculptor, is a konstnär.

Declension

Declension of artist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	artist	artists
	definite	artisten	artistens
plural	indefinite	artister	artisters
	definite	artisterna	artisternas

See also

• konstnär

References

• artist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• artist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• artist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• ritats, trista