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Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. It is also used in a qualitative sense of a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of 'high culture', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works that can be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics will define as artists those who produce art within a recognised or recognisable discipline.
The term is also used to denote highly skilled people in non-"arts" activities, as well — crafts, medicine, alchemy, mechanics, mathematics, defense (martial arts) and architecture, for example. The designation is applied to illegal activities, like a "scam artist". The term 'artist' could also refer to a con artist.
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Volume 21, number 2: Emerging Themes, Emerging Voices
Mills Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Considering the Copy
Moss Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Beyond English
LaFountain Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Collapsing Boundaries
Bailly Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Objects, Contexts, and the Space Between
Jordan Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
Volume 21, number 2: Copley's Cargo
Roberts Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:05 -0500
In 1765, John Singleton Copley sent his painting Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel) from Boston to London in hopes of receiving feedback from the arbiters of academic aesthetics. Several months later, he received the welcome news that Sir Joshua Reynolds had called the painting "wonderfull." In virtually every scholarly narrative of early American art, Boy with a Squirrel derives its canonical significance from this famous transatlantic relay. But the most basic reality of that relay–the massive fact of the Atlantic Ocean standing between Copley and his interlocutors–has barely been registered in the scholarship.This essay interprets Boy with a Squirrel in terms of the difficulty and delicacy of its transatlantic transmission. I argue that Copley, as he attempted to create a painting that would have the necessary transitive qualities, drew from an array of familiar discourses of Atlantic exchange and transport. The painting's profile format evoked strategies of numismatic exchange. The precise representation of the flying squirrel tapped into well-established transatlantic natural history circuits. The spatial transformations of the composition echoed not only empiricist theories of sensory conveyance (especially the writings of George Berkeley), but also mirrored the workaday dynamics of the shipping and reassembly of transatlantic commodities. Copley, like many other colonial artists, worked in a global community governed by distance, difference, and delay. By attending to the vehicular context of Boy with a Squirrel, we can begin to understand his strategies for articulating–and navigating–that new global space.
Rome in the 18th Century - Oglethorpe University Museum exhibition of 18th century landscape veduta paintings of Venice Rome. This important exhibit included works by Canaletto, Panini Ricci.
Meta Description: [ 18th century landscape paintings of Venice and Rome considered among the finest masterpieces of Italian artists Canaletto, Panini, Ricci and others. ]
All About Artists - Short biographies, image galleries, and timelines of a small selection of painters.
Meta Description: [ Discover art history information such as artist biographies, painter artwork timelines and fine art in oil paints and watercolor by american and french impressionists. ]
ARC International - The Art Renewal Center - Offering biographical information and high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century.
Meta Description: [ The Art Renewal Center website. Here you can see the largest online museum in the world, articles, and additional materials. For the main ARC page, see http://www.artrenewal.org/ ]
Art History at Loggia - 'Artists at a Glance' features a select group of some of the most important artists who have shaped the history of art.
Meta Description: [ Exploring the art and artists of the world, with information about recommended art books. ]
Art-Platform.com - Offers images of the works of famous painters.
Artists of the 20th Century - Biographies and photographs of artists of the 20th century with links to a search engine.
Meta Description: [ Artists and art the-artists.org, the major modern and contemporary visual artists and art, with portrait biography and resources with artworks arts posters and modern art and contemporary art prints. ]
Artquizz - Test your knowledge of all periods of Art, painters and painting with quizzes, games and puzzles. Site aimed for all levels of knowledge, including children pages. Visitors are invited to participate in the making of new pages, in English and in French.
Meta Description: [ test your knowledege of art - testez vos connaissances en Art - pruebe su conocimiento en arte - ENGLISH - FRENCH - ESPAÑOL ]
AskART.com American Artist Reference - Information on 23,000 American artists including biographies, bodies of work, valuation and appraisal techniques, auction records, publications, and artists representatives as well as literature and museum information for American painters and sculptors.
Meta Description: [ value art prices, painting value, art appraisals and auction price information ]
Brain-Juice - Well-written biographies about 20th century art, film, history, literature, and music. All biographies are written by students at the best U.S. universities, with the strongest concentration from Brown, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
Distinguished Artists Series - Distinguished artists, including an alphabetical index of over 2,000 deceased American artists, as provided by Traditional Fine Arts Online organization.
Meta Description: [ Online catalogs and links to
works of notable American painters and sculptors. ]
Famous Painter - Lives and art of famous painters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vincent Van Gogh. Biographies and images of works.
Four American Painters: Eakins, Homer, Hopper, Sargent - A survey of American painting, focusing on the work of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent.
Giorgio Vasari - The Lives of the Artists - An illustrated companion to Vasari's Lives, with associated text.
Meta Description: [ A collection of works mentioned by Giorgio Vasari in The Lives of the Artists, with the related text ]
Last Expression - Exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz.
Life of an Artist - Biographies and Galleries - Includes the text of Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists, indexed by artist with selected specific artist galleries.
Olga's Gallery - Large collection of images of the works of many artists, with biographies and historical comments. Sorted by alphabet, topic, movement, and nationality/country. Offers a newsletter, and archives are available.
Meta Description: [ One of the largest online painting museums. New exhibits weekly. Biographies and main works of famous artists. Excellent quality of reproductions. Historical comments. ]
The Smart-Ass Guide to Art - Offers humorous biographical notes on artists such as Giotto, Artemisia Gentileschi, Franz Hals, Picasso.
Web Gallery of Art - A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 6,500 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, and guided tours.
Meta Description: [ Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts (painting, sculpture) of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), containing over 12,100 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours, free postcard service are available. ]
WetCanvas: Virtual Museum - A true virtual museum, complete with images, stories, and biographical notes on the great masters.
Women Artists in History - Showcase of women artists down through the centuries.
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