abstractionist

(art) Someone who supports or creates abstract art.

abstraccionista

someone who paints or creates abstract art


drawer

Middle English drawer, from draw + -er (agent noun suffix). Attested from the 14th century.

/ˈdɹɔː.ə(ɹ)/

/ˈdɹɔːɹə(ɹ)/

There is no doubt that the stipulation of nonguarantee of an acceptance inserted in a bill of exchange by the drawer has the effect of excluding the liability of guarantee for the indorsers as well as for the drawer.

1913, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6526, page 276:

(banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.

出票人

one who writes a bank draft, check/cheque or promissory note

When the good lieutenant applied himself to the door, he applied himself likewise to the bell; and the drawer immediately attending, he dispatched him for a file of musqueteers and a surgeon.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:

He came down to the Pied Horse Inn, where I was a drawer, at Newmarket, twice.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

A barman; a person who draws the beer from the taps.

(mining, historical) A wagoner or person who pushes underground tubs.


performer

One who performs for, or entertains, an audience.

the performer of an action

عَازِف

performer — see also actor, singer, musician


artist

→ Japanese: アーティスト (ātisuto)

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


master

Sranan Tongo: masra

→ Catalan: màster

→ Finnish: master

→ French: master

→ German: Master

→ Polish: master

→ Portuguese: máster

→ Spanish: máster

→ Turkish: master

From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s, (as in magnus (“great”)) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)). Reinforced by Old French maistre, mestre (noun) and maistriier, maister (verb) from the same Latin source. Compare also Saterland Frisian Mäster (“master”), West Frisian master (“master”), Dutch meester (“master”), German Meister (“master”). Doublet of maestro, magister, and meister.

doublet

Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete

use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house

(by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.


master

en-verb

master (third-person singular simple present masters, present participle mastering, simple past and past participle mastered)

masters (present singular third-person)
mastering (participle present)
mastered (participle past)
mastered (past)

He mastered in English at the state college.

(intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.


painter

From a variation of panther, paralleling other Southern pronunciations for can't and aunt (see ain't for more details).

I have fou't most of the creatur's of the forest, such as bears, wolves, painters and catamounts, but this is the beginning with the red-skins.

1893, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer:


prestidigitator

One who performs feats of prestidigitation; a sleight-of-hand artist.


Titian

Anglicized form of Italian Tiziano, from Latin Titiānus.


carver

From Middle English carver, karvere, kerver, kervere, equivalent to carve + -er. Cognate with Scots kerver, carver, carvour (“carver”).

She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 215:

An armchair as part of a set of dining chairs (originally for the person who is to carve the meat).


sculptor

A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.


Dadaist

/ˈdɑːdɑːɪst/


Dadaist

/ˈdɑːdɑːɪst/


impressionist

One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism.

A performer who does impressions; a mimic.


mangaka

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Borrowed from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が)家(か) (mangaka). Doublet of manhwaga and manhuajia.


cubist

[…] as far as I know there is no standard word describing the art of playing with the cube. Cubing? Cubistics? Rubikonomia? or perhaps Rubikomania? Can the science (or art) of doing it be called “cubology”, as suggested by Scientific American? Some enthusiasts borrow “cubism” and call themselves “cubists”, all very reminiscent of the 1920s three dimensional, modern art phase.

[1982 March 18, Stephan Sulyak, “Review: The magic cube (A Büvös Kocka)”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1297, →ISSN, page 734:

Being a new reader of this group and a novice cubist, I'm not familiar with either of these notations. Would someone please fill me in? Thanks in advance for the help.

1992 May 5, SH...@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu, “Re: God's algorithm again for Rubiks Cube, was Re: combinatorial puzzl”, in rec.puzzles (Usenet):


Cubist

(art) An artist who works in the style of cubism.


pointillist

of, pertaining to, or in the style of pointillism


Leonardo

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Leonard.


Raphael

en-proper noun

Raphael (countable and uncountable, plural Raphaels)

/ˈɹæf.eɪˌɛl/

/ˌɹæf.aɪˈɛl/

/ˌɹɑ.faɪˈɛl/

/ˌɹæf.aɪˈɛl/

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Latin Raphael. From Koine Greek Ῥᾱφᾱήλ (Rhāphāḗl), from Hebrew רָפָאֵל (Rāfāʾēl, literally “God cures/has healed”).

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(art) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian Renaissance painter (1483–1520).


sculptress

Nor may vve here omit to celebrate for the glory of the Sex, Propertia de Roſſi, a Florentine Sculptreſs; vvho having cut ſtupendious things in Marble, put forth alſo ſome rare things in Stampi to be encountred amongſt the Collections of the Curious.

1662, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of the Invention and Progresse of Chalcography in Particular; together with an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters, and Their Workes”, in Sculptura: Or The History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper. […], London: […] J[ames] C[ottrel] for G. Beedle [i.e., Gabriel Bedell], and T[homas] Collins, […], and J[ohn] Crook […], →OCLC, book I, pages 52–53:

The opening of GALAS in Boston signifies the first organized presentation of lesbian-created art in this city. Over 60 photographers, painters, craftswomen, sculptresses, and performing artists are participating in this month-long celebration.

1980 August 2, C. T. McKee, Marcia Geier, “The Great American Lesbian Art Show Comes To Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 10:


futurist

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The distinction, however, seems to be that the warriors of the past went in for tournaments, which were at least dangerous for themselves, while the Futurists go in for motor-cars, which are mainly alarming for other people.

1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions:

‘A passion for destruction is also a creative passion.’ This statement by the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin in 1842 could have been the rallying cry of the Italian Futurists around 1910.

2005, Alan Bartram, Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 20:

(art) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.

Two multibillion-dollar industries—the computer manufacturers and telephone companies—had each developed its technologies separately. But as futurist Howard Rheingold suggests in his book Virtual Communities, the industries inadvertently gave private consumers access to those billion of dollars by selling them a tiny device to link the two technologies together: a computer modem.

2010, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!, Random House, →ISBN, page 237:

One who studies and predicts possible futures.


futurist

en-adj

futurist (comparative more futurist, superlative most futurist)

more futurist (comparative)
most futurist (superlative)

Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax. Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.

2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 126:

футурысты́чны

advanced so far beyond that which is current as to appear to be from the future


Michelangelo

From Italian Michelangelo, from Michele (“Michael”) + Angelo (“Angel”), referring to Michael the Archangel.

In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.

1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 10:

Where did Picasso come from? / There's no Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh

1990, Lou Reed, John Cale (lyrics and music), “Smalltown”, in Songs for Drella:

A 15th- and 16th-century Italian artist, full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564).


Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish painter, best known as a founder of the Cubist movement.


caricaturist

/ˈkæɹɪkəˌt͡ʃʊəɹɪst/

But, the power of the caricaturist lies in exhibiting with increased ugliness personal and natural defects . . .

1828, Amelia Alderson Opie, Detraction Displayed:


Van Gogh

From Dutch van Gogh (literally “from Goch”).

This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.

2010, Antonio Saggio, A Secret van Gogh: His Motif and Motives, →ISBN, page 11:

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch draughtsman and painter.

فان غوخ

fān ḡōḵ, vān ḡōḵ


watercolourist

Jim's aunt is an avid watercolourist.


origamist

/ɔɹɪˈɡɑmɪst/


postimpressionist

The postimpressionists went much further in augmenting the limited evidence of our eyes with material of the mind.

2003, John H. Lienhard, Inventing Modern: Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins:

A painter of the style of postimpressionism.


graffiti artist

en-noun

graffiti artist (plural graffiti artists)

A person who paints graffiti in public places, especially one who specializes in high-quality work rather than vandalism.


collagist

One who makes collages, or who has made a specific collage.


Cummingsesque

en-adj

Cummingsesque (comparative more Cummingsesque, superlative most Cummingsesque)

more Cummingsesque (comparative)
most Cummingsesque (superlative)

Reminiscent or characteristic of Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962), American writer and painter noted for his syntactically idiosyncratic poetry.


graffer

A wall in neighbouring Clifton Hill is also very chatty, but the messages are the tags, pieces and throw-ups of subway-style graffiti writers, whose conversation is directed to other graffers rather than the general public (above).

2007, Christine Dew, Uncommissioned art: an A-Z of Australian graffiti:


Blakean

Blakean (comparative more Blakean, superlative most Blakean)

more Blakean (comparative)
most Blakean (superlative)

I’m not sure what to call [Jimmy] Miles’s austere and evacuated style. Some kind of Blakean radical simplicity?

2011 July 28, Terry Castle, “Do I like it?”, in London Review of Books, volume 33, number 15, →ISSN:

Of or relating to William Blake (1757–1827), English poet and painter.


Gainsborough

A town and civil parish with a town council in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8190).


Caravaggio

/ˌkæɹəˈvædʒiəʊ/

/ˌkæɹəˈvɑd͡ʒ(i)oʊ/

/ˌkɑɹəˈvɑd͡ʒ(i)oʊ/

From Italian Caravaggio, his family's place of origin.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), an Italian painter known for the dramatism of his style and subjects.


Masaccio

/məˈsɑːt͡ʃioʊ/

Borrowed from Italian Masaccio, from Maso (diminutive of Tommaso) + -accio (pejorative suffix).

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diminutive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">Tommaso</i>

Around 1425, the Florentine artist Masaccio painted the first major works in one-point perspective. That revolutionized what artists could do ever after.

2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times:

An Italian painter (born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone; 1401–1428) of the Quattrocento period.


divisionist

An artist who works in the style of divisionism.


Hogarth

Of Dutch origin, hoog (“high”) + aard (“nature or character”).


luminist

(painting) A painter who works in the style of luminism.


graphic designer

en-noun

graphic designer (plural graphic designers)

An artist who creates images for a specific purpose, such as advertising or web design.


Dalí

From Catalan Dalí, possibly from dalí (“stick for fording”), from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl, “sign, guide”).

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish artist.


Constable

An English surname originating as an occupation from Old French conestable (“constable”).

A town in Franklin County, New York; named for landowner William Constable.


war artist

A person who, usually as an occupation, depicts scenes from conflicts.


performance artist

performance artist (plural performance artists)

A person who creates and performs in performance art.


Leonardeschi

/ˌlɪ.ənɑːˈdɛskɪ/

etymologically less correct but possibly more common

/ˌlɪ.ənɑːˈdɛʃɪ/

/lənɑɹˈdɛʃi/

Borrowed from Italian leonardeschi, the masculine plural form of leonardesco (“of or pertaining to Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardesque”), named after the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) + -esco (“-esque”, suffix forming an adjective or noun indicating relationship, membership or quality).

named-after

In this connexion we may think of the importance of the Lombards, the Leonardeschi, and the Venetians for contemporary northern painting.

1969, Gert von der Osten, Horst Vey, translated by Mary Hottinger, Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands 1500–1600 (The Pelican History of Art; Z31), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC:

There are good reasons to think that Caravaggio admired the renaissance art of the Leonardeschi. For this Boy peeling fruit, he may have been thinking specifically of the famous Flora that was painted around 1510 by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo's most faithful Milanese students and indeed his legal heir.

2003, Caravaggio & His World: Darkness & Light, Sydney, N.S.W.: Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne, Vic.: National Gallery of Victoria, →ISBN, page 82:

In the first half of the sixteenth century, only the leonardeschi — those painters who undergo the influence of Leonardo and his works — correspond to such needs.

2007, Carlo Pedretti, Margherita Melani, editors, Leonardo Da Vinci: The European Genius: Paintings and Drawings: Exhibition in the Basilica of Koekelberg, Brussels, in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome for the Constitution of the European Community (1957–2007), Foligno, Perugia, Italy: Cartei & Bianchi, →ISBN, page 170, column 1:

A group of artists who worked in the studio of, or under the influence of, Leonardo da Vinci.


quadraturist

/ˈkwɒdɹət͡ʃəɹɪst/

From Italian quadraturista. Equivalent to quadrature + -ist.

When the two friends were engaged in decorating the archiepiscopal palace at Ravenna, and at the courts of Parma and Modena, Mitelli alternately assisted the figurist and the quadraturist.

1854, Luigi Antonio Lanzi, The History of Painting in Italy, From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century:

Agostino Mitelli also worked with them as both figurist and quadraturist. Colonna, however, was an extremely capable quadraturist, and he became so specialised that he soon left Il Dentone's studio, setting himself up independently.
It is not a simple task to distinguish which of the two artists painted ceilings or walls in the Rooms, or to whom the activity of figurist or quadraturist should be attributed.

2004, Marilena Mosco, Ornella Casazza, The Museo Degli Argenti:

He had worked with the Bolognese quadraturist Antonio Maria Bernardi, who had served Max Emmanuel at Schloss Lustheim (the hunting lodge connected with Schleissheim) from 1688 to 1689.

2016, Daniel Fulco, Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire:


food artist

Now instead of pictures of the product usually enhanced by food artists, the consumer can actually see what they are buying. The product speaks for itself as it is very appealing and appetizing.

2007, Milling & Baking News, volume 86, numbers 21-26, page 45:

A person employed to arrange food in an attractive presentation to be photographed for use on packaging etc.


mosaist

A person who creates mosaics, a mosaicist.


assemblagist

(art) One who constructs assemblages (a form of 3D collage).


starving artist

en-noun

starving artist (plural starving artists)

A person who works as an artist or performer despite making little or no money for it, therefore suffering in poverty.


aleatoricist

An artist who uses aleatoricism in the creation of art.


bricolagist

(art) An artist who uses bricolage in the creation of art.


cloisonnist

An artist who works in the cloisonnism style.


fine artist

An artist who creates only aesthetic art; an artist who persists in fine arts as opposed to industrial or functional arts.


cityscapist

Like other cityscapists, Van de Velde attempted to fit the entire city into his painting. He therefore depicted it from a distance and at a wide angle, so that the entire length of the city walls would fit in the picture.

2004, Albert Blankert, Selected writings on Dutch painting:


field painter

(art) An artist working in the style of field painting.


chromoluminarist

of, pertaining to, or in the style of chromoluminarism


Polyclitus

Learned borrowing from Latin Polyclītus, from Ancient Greek Πολῠ́κλειτος (Polŭ́kleitos).

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Πολῠ́κλειτος

A male given name from Latin Polyclītus [in turn from Ancient Greek Πολύκλειτος (Polúkleitos, “far-famed, greatly renowned”)]

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Elder, 5th century BCE Ancient Greek sculptor and artist from Argos or Sicyon

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Younger, 4th century BCE Ancient Greek architect


Polycletus

Learned borrowing from Latin Polyclētus, from Ancient Greek Πολῠ́κλειτος (Polŭ́kleitos).

Πολῠ́κλειτος

Alternative form of Polyclitus, a male given name from Latin Polyclētus [in turn from Ancient Greek Πολύκλειτος (Polúkleitos, “far-famed, greatly renowned”)]


manhwaga

Borrowed from Korean 만화가(漫畫家) (manhwaga). Doublet of mangaka and manhuajia.

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I have no idea why but there’s an overwhelming number of cat lovers among Manhwagas (Manhwa artists), a disproportionate number considering how many people there are who don’t even like cats.

2006 August 22, Wann, Can't Lose You, volume 2, Netcomics, →ISBN, page 3:

Hello, I’m Youngran Lee, the manhwaga who is happiest when writing and drawing.

2006 September 5, Youngran Lee, Lie to Me (Manhwa Novella Collection), volume 1, Netcomics, →ISBN, page 4:

The creators of these East Asian comics also have specific titles: a person who makes manga is a mangaka, a person who creates manhwa is a manhwaga, and a person that makes manhua is a manhuajia.

2022 September 30, Jieun Kiaer, Ben Cagan, Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 101:

A manhwa (Korean comic) author or artist.


manhuajia

en-noun

manhuajia (plural manhuajias or manhuajia)

Borrowed from Mandarin 漫畫家 /漫画家 (mànhuàjiā). Doublet of mangaka and manhwaga.

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Some of the manga introuced during this period came through unauthorized copying by local Taiwanese manhuajia, who adapted original Japanese manga into a Taiwanese-style three horizontal grid.

2019, Lee, I. Yun, “The Development of Taiwan Manhua”, in Haruhiko Fujita, Christine Guth, editors, Encyclopedia of East Asian Design, →ISBN:

Most of the art work in Wanxiang is by a group of artists who are most often referred to today as manhuajia 漫畫家 (cartoonists), many of whom had been members of a cartoon society that was established in Shanghai in December 1926.

2020, Paul Bevan, ‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage, →ISBN:

2022, Jieun Kiaer, Ben Cagan, Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation, →ISBN:

A manhua (Chinese comic) author or artist.