(n.) One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan.
(n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
(n.) One who shows trained skill or rare taste in any manual art or occupation.
(n.) An artful person; a schemer.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(3) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(4) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(5) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(6) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(7) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(8) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(9) They were never a band, as they were often called, they were artist-activists.
(10) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
(11) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(12) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
(13) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(14) China's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.
(15) This museum is a symbol of the artistic vitality of Paris.
(16) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(17) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(18) The refreshing aspect of the success of this campaign was that a grassroots movement started in the community, rallied widespread support including academics, artists and politicians, and took control of deciding what constitutes racism and the bounds of acceptability.
(19) Dotcom soft-launched the site in January with a single artist: himself .
(20) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
Easel
Definition:
(n.) A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Man Booker prize body used Twitter to post an image of the longlist on an easel outside Buckingham Palace, mimicking the official announcement of the birth of the royal baby on Monday.
(2) 3 I had an easel of my own, but the top of it was nothing like Van Gogh's, so I fashioned a fake top out of scrap wood and lashed it to the easel with duct tape.
(3) Thus, it was concluded that the TDI can be used in lieu of the MacBeth Easel Lamp for screening color vision with the Ishihara test.
(4) The thing that jars as the Briton of years standing enters the airy Brent auditorium is the incongruity of the Queen's formal portrait perched atop a wooden easel.
(5) —You know, she added, standing before a large photograph of Wegener that was set on an easel, there is a resemblance between these two men.
(6) Barnes refused to sell any of the great Matisses or Cezannes that he bought virtually off the easel because he considered his collection greater than the sum of its parts.
(7) It was planned long before it opened six months after Freud's death, and included his last painting left unfinished on his easel.
(8) I see now that a lot of the argument in the late 60s was not that painting was dead, but that easel painting was dead.
(9) In this setting, he sustained until the end his ability to make portrayals of many of the people and animals who mattered to him (the one still on the easel, Portrait of a Hound), paintings that face-to-face are all-consuming and oddly liberating.
(10) Jahar Tsarnaev took them all away in the most brutal and painful way possible,” she said, gesturing to easels holding large pictures of the four victims.
(11) At this point no one would be that surprised if Kensington Palace put out an easel declaring that she is going to be Prince George's godmother.
(12) Tim Hall's portrait shows his wife in their shared studio, their slightly bored-looking pug by her side, and her portrait of René Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen – repeatedly voted the best restaurant in the world – on her easel.
(13) With all of the fussing over the Duchess of Cambridge's birth plan and the fact that the announcement of the birth will be made via an easel outside Buckingham Palace , I'm comforted to know that she will be going through exactly the same indignity and terror that I am currently experiencing.
(14) Paget recently opened a shipping container and found hundreds of easels inside, ordered at the peak of Obama's surge for commanders in small outposts, keen to map out their offensives against the Taliban on whiteboards balanced on the wooden stands.
(15) In fact, this alternative procedure yields test performances for normal and deficient subjects on the 100-hue, panel D-15, and AO H-R-R tests that are virtually identical to those obtained using a standard Macbeth Easel Lamp.
(16) Like Kelly, Zogolovitch likes undesignated spots "where you might set up a cello or an easel or write a novel".
(17) "Excess easels, there were easels everywhere," he said, shaking his head.
(18) Trivelpiece, an exceptionally astute physicist, had heard the president's sight was failing, and prepared his presentation on two large easels, which he dragged into the Oval Office.
(19) Someone wheel out the gilded easel and announce its arrival!
(20) The two discussed how he should pose, before deciding on his confrontational stance and straight-to-easel glare.