artist (artist)

[F. artiste = Sp. Pg. It. ar tista, The wise and fool, the artist and unread. Shak ., T. and C., i. 3. Some will make me the pattern of ignorance for making this Scaliger [Julius Cæsar] the pattern of the general artist , whose own son Joseph might have been his father in many arts. Fuller . 2. One skilled in a trade; one who is master of a manual art; a good workman in any trade: as, a tonsorial artist. [Obsolete, colloquial, or vulgar.] When I made this an artist undertook to imitate it, but Newton. using another way, fell much short. "You shall have no cause to rue the delay," said the smith, "for your horse shall be better fed in the meantime than he hath been this morning, and made fitter for travel." With that the artist left the vault, and returned after a few minutes interval. Scott , Kenilworth, I. ix. 3. One who practises any one, or any branch, of the fine arts; specifically, a painter or a sculptor. Mi Sharp's father was an artist, and in that quality had given le ons of drawing in Mi P.'s school. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, I. ii. Love, unperceived, A more ideal artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you. Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. 4. A member of one of the histrionic profe ions, as an actor, a tenor, or a dancer.-5. In universities, a student in the faculty of arts. -6t. One who practises artifice; a trickster. artiste (är-test'), n. [F., an artist: see artist. ] One who is peculiarly dexterous or skilful in the practice of some art not one of the fine arts; one who makes an art of his employment, as a dancer, a hair-dre er, or a cook: same as artist, 2 and 4. artistic (är-tis'tik), a. [ To be artistic , that is, to excite the feeling of beauty effectually, the notes [of a song] must not be all forte or all piano; and the execution is the finer the more numerons the gradations-supposing these are such as to satisfy other requirements. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 537. Artistic printing, in etching , same as artificial print ing (which see, under artificial ). artistically (är-tis'ti-kal-i), adv. In an artistic manner. artist-like (är'tist-lik), a. 1. Befitting an artist.-2. Executed in the manner of an artist; conformable to the rules of art. To this day, though we have more finished drawings, we have no designs that are more artist - like. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sciences, xvii. 2.