What's the difference between artistry and skill?

Artistry


Definition:

  • (n.) Works of art collectively.
  • (n.) Artistic effect or quality.
  • (n.) Artistic pursuits; artistic ability.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The French love Malick's artistry and mystery and he continued to play the recluse by not showing up for his press conference or red carpet, although I'm told he has been here, staying at the famed Colombe d'Or in St-Paul-de-Vence and that he did sneak in to watch at least some of his own film's premiere.
  • (2) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.
  • (3) Danny Welbeck, Chris Smalling and Fabio all scored before the break in a stanza run by Anderson and decorated with flashes of artistry by the promising Wilfried Zaha, before Adnan Januzaj and then Jesse Lingard scored in the second half.
  • (4) One of the brewery’s two founders, James Watt, pronounced the drink “an audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion”.
  • (5) Vicente del Bosque's side, for that matter, have developed a highly individual style founded on exceptional technique that exhausts and demoralises opponents as a midfield of supreme artistry confiscates the ball.
  • (6) Entering the showground perched on top of a 1912 stagecoach, the couple watched displays of mutton busting and sheep fighting and then, rather more violently, displays of bull riding by grown men, champions of the spectacle, trying to stay on the backs of bulls for as long as eight seconds, for which they are marked for artistry and skill.
  • (7) The 305ft statue is a marvel of artistry and engineering, and there are many details to admire, but none is more important than her right leg, which is stepping forward, and stepping forward not casually but with great striding purpose.
  • (8) They despised Bond's characters, his "slavishly literal bawdry", the lack of artistry in his writing.
  • (9) It capped a celebration of Pelé started by the presentation of an honorary degree by Hofstra University this weekend — itself the centerpiece of one of the largest soccer conferences ever held in the USA, 'Soccer as the Beautiful Game: Football’s Artistry, Identity and Politics' featuring over 100 speakers from around the world, including the likes of David Goldblatt ('The Ball is Round') and an intriguing proposition from Dr Jennifer Doyle, of the University of California, Riverside: 'Imagining a World Without a World Cup: An Abolitionist Perspective'.
  • (10) It suggests there's more artistry within a genre that has become more of a cliche of itself."
  • (11) Afterwards, Jeter, whose artistry during his long career also included giving countless post-game interviews that were narrow and revealed little, provided viewers with insight into the night, the year and his career.
  • (12) Without question I enjoy watching him because I appreciate artistry, I appreciate technique, strategy, tactics.
  • (13) When people talk romantically about dreams of rustic artistry, nobody warns you about this stuff: just like when I moved into my house nobody warned me that a man would come to the shore of the nearby lake and shout "COME ON THEN, LET'S BE 'AVIN YOU!"
  • (14) In addition, the surgeon's artistry is of paramount importance; one truly performs plastic (plastikos = to mold) surgery when resculpturing a patient's body.
  • (15) This paper discusses the two dimensions of public health medicine competence--science and art--and explores the reasons for the importance of public health medicine artistry within an organisational context.
  • (16) And while I doubt Trump himself has ever read a book on pick-up artistry, because I doubt he has ever read a book on anything, his own hinterland is very similar.
  • (17) It was a wonderful exhibition of wing artistry from Zaha and helped earn a win for a Palace side whose creative flair eventually trumped the visitors’ negativity.
  • (18) It is not pretty, and Miliband lacks the political artistry to make his moral expediency seem like strong leadership, as Blair or Margaret Thatcher would have done.
  • (19) "That thing of hiding behind artistry – if you can't write a pop song then let's have a wig-out."
  • (20) Some do so with respect and artistry, some exploit shamelessly.

Skill


Definition:

  • (n.) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
  • (n.) Knowledge; understanding.
  • (n.) The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.
  • (n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
  • (n.) Any particular art.
  • (v. t.) To know; to understand.
  • (v. i.) To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
  • (v. i.) To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (2) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (3) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
  • (4) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
  • (5) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (6) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
  • (7) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (8) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
  • (9) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
  • (10) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
  • (11) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
  • (12) A teaching package is described for teaching interview skills to large blocks of medical students whilst on their psychiatric attachment.
  • (13) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
  • (14) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
  • (15) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
  • (16) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
  • (17) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
  • (18) The functional role of corticocortical input projecting to the motor cortex in learning motor skills was investigated by training 3 cats with and without the projection area.
  • (19) Gauging the proper end point of methohexital administration is accomplished through skilled observation of the patient.
  • (20) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.