The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The normal meaning 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 certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.

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When . artists. see a canvas, most of them want to fill it, even if it's with nothing more than a doodle. But sand . artist. Andres Amador works with one of the biggest canvases available, with entire lengths of beaches swallowed up by his ...

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Three of the dozens of . artists. to be featured at this year's Waterfront Art Fair in downtown Charlevoix have been profiled by art enthusiast Anne Kelly. John Schirmer has always had a love of wood carving. As a young boy in Saginaw, ...

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Which artists use mirrors as a medium in their work?
Q. I've been trying to find out the names of any artists that actually use mirror as part of their work, such as painting on them etc. All I can find are artists that paint pictures of mirrors! Any names or images would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and preferably the mirror images would be self portraits. Thanks!
Asked by Thea - Tue May 5 15:19:18 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. try searching mosaics they often use mirror!
Answered by leona g - Tue May 5 15:28:36 2009

What verious artists album cover has speeded up glow of car headlights in a night-time city scene?
Q. This album was made late eighties, early nighties. It was verious artists, One of the tracks was Queen - I want to break free on it, it could have been the first track on the CD.
Asked by gray S - Wed Mar 4 12:08:47 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. go on ebay and type in Various albums of the 1980,s the album cover will turn up in time.
Answered by Karl M - Wed Mar 4 17:06:44 2009

How do you make windows media player display albums with various artists as one album?
Q. When you tag several artists on the same ablum that are different from each other, windows media player picks it up as each of the seperate artists have done an album called , and thus refuses to display every track when you try to browse the album. How can you make it so you have multiple artists with different tracks, but windows media player will show it as one complete album?
Asked by TNT - Wed Oct 31 07:06:35 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Make a list of your own by dragging the songs on the side,and give it the tittle you like.
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