What's the difference between artist and painter?

Artist


Definition:

  • (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.

Painter


Definition:

  • (n.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
  • (n.) The panther, or puma.
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to paint
  • (n.) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.
  • (n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was inadequate evidence to indicate that the higher risk of neuropsychiatric disability for painters might have been due to their occupational exposure to organic solvents.
  • (2) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
  • (3) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
  • (4) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
  • (5) It was a diplomatic gift from Rubens to Charles I, when the painter was acting as an envoy for Philip IV, but nevertheless seems to me a painting for everyone.
  • (6) Closing volume in relation to vital capacity (CV%) was increased in car painters, suggestive of a "small airways disease" on Monday before work and tended to increase during a work week.
  • (7) Statistically significant increases were detected in the elution rates of male smoking automobile mechanics and male smoking painters compared to non-smoking controls.
  • (8) Dr Atl is better known for his work as a landscape painter who portrayed the horizons of the valley of Mexico.
  • (9) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
  • (10) That in turn helps to bring an income stream to creative artists, painters and many others.” At the event, Corbyn also vowed to defend the BBC , suggesting it could be lost, and UK broadcasting could end up commercialised like in the US, due to cuts made by the Conservative government.
  • (11) Thoma, who was born in the Black Forest in southern Germany in 1839 and died in 1924, started out as a painter of clock faces and built a reputation for his depictions of rural life.
  • (12) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
  • (13) What Norbert Lynton called "painterly lavishness" took over Scott's work.
  • (14) He quoted a Chinese proverb that to be a painter "you need the eye, the hand and the heart.
  • (15) Leafing anxiously through a folder thick with court documentation and witness statements, Painter said he wanted his children returned to his care so they could go back to their old school and the home in which they had grown up.
  • (16) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
  • (17) Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) is recognized as one of the most famous Norwegian painters of his time.
  • (18) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
  • (19) The son of an architect and older brother of broadcaster Clement Freud, the painter was married to Kathleen Garman for four years.
  • (20) "I saw Picasso, Matisse, but Paul Klee was the big influence," he told me, "because he was so steeped in Indian philosophy he had made himself almost an Indian painter."