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An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts, and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage 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 valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism. ==Dictionary definitions== Wiktionary defines the noun 'artist' (Singular: artist; Plural: artists) as follows: # A person who creates art. # A person who creates art as an occupation. # A person who is skilled at some activity. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice * A follower of a manual art, such as a mechanic * One who makes their craft a fine art * One who cultivates one of the fine arts – traditionally the arts presided over by the muses 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「artist」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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