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What is an Artist?

-“Lost Data” by manzel.biz

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.

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-The Portal by manzel.biz

The Greek word “techně”, often translated as “art,” implies mastery of any sort of craft. The adjectival Latin form of the word, “technicus”, became the source of the English words technique, technology, technical.

– ” Grand Pyramid” by manzel.biz

The word art derives from the Latin “ars” (stem art-), which, although literally defined, means “skill method” or “technique”, and conveys a connotation of beauty.

– Glitch Goddess by manzel.biz

During the Middle Ages the word artist already existed in some countries such as Italy, but the meaning was something resembling craftsman, while the word artesan was still unknown. An artist was someone able to do a work better than others, so the skilled excellency was underlined, rather than the activity field. In this period some “artisanal” products (such as textiles) were much more precious and expensive than paintings or sculptures.

-artsy and black

The first division into major and minor arts dates back at least to the works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura, which focused on the importance of the intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills (even if in other forms of art there was a project behind)

-“Seraphim Pistols” by manzel.biz

With the Academies in Europe (second half of 16th century) the gap between fine and applied arts was definitely set.

-“Skyla”, created by Darryl Crosby

Many contemporary definitions of “artist” and “art” are highly contingent on culture, resisting aesthetic prescription, in much the same way that the features constituting beauty and the beautiful cannot be standardized easily without corruption into kitsch.

-“Exaltation” by manzel.biz

The present day concept of an ‘artist’

-“A Prayer On Gentle Wings”, illustrated by Darantha (Linda Lithén) on Deviantart.com

Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist also may be defined unofficially as “a person who expresses him- or herself through a medium”. The word is also used in a qualitative sense of, a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.

-“Santeria: The Goddess Kiss”, illustrated by Ramartwork on Tumblr.com. Character created by aspencomics.com

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ‘high culture‘, activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, new media, photography, and music—people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics define artists as those who produce art within a recognized or recognizable discipline. Contrasting terms for highly skilled workers in media in the applied arts or decorative arts include artisan, craftsman, and specialized terms such as potter, goldsmith or glassblower. Fine arts artists such as painters succeeded in the Renaissance in raising their status, formerly similar to these workers, to a decisively higher level, but in the 20th century the distinction became rather less relevant.

-“Amazon Warrior”, illustrated by Junior Beckley

-“Jordan 4 Personified”, illustrated by Christian Amiel Miranda

-“Geomancy”, illustrated by taypayart.com

-model Adja Kaba art by manzel.biz

-“Bastille” by manzel.biz

-“Lost Boy”, illustrated by Karl Levy on Artstation.com

-Developmental art for dynasty of the magi, illustrated by Mshindo Kuumba medias.

-by Tony Jackson

-“Dark Waters”, created by manzel.biz

-“Spear Of Justice”, illustrated by Choro on Artstation.com

-“Temple Of Modren”, illustrated by Mitchell Malloy

-“Cleric”, illustrated by izzyh art

-the unknown lyricist

-“Kayle Valkyrie”, illustrated by Gilis Dominique on Artstation.com

-“Setekh”, created by Jared Krichevsky

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
When Jackson (James Spader) and O’Neil (Kurt Russell) are taken to see Ra (Jaye Davidson), O’Neil’s secret intentions are revealed.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
This lucrative, elephantine-budgeted sci-fi opus paved the way for director Roland Emmerich’s mega-hit Independence Day (1996). The story commences in Giza, Egypt, circa 1928, where an archaeological expedition unearths an ancient ring with cryptic hieroglyphs. The film then moves to the present day, where Egyptologist Daniel Jackson (James Spader) is busily trying to convince a group of skeptics that the pyramids were not built by man, but by an extraterrestrial force. After the lecture, a military man approaches him and offers him a job translating the said ring; its inscriptions actually constitute a map to a massive stargate (or interstellar portal). The army sends over resident crackpot colonel Jack O’Neill (Kurt Russell) to travel through the stargate and see what’s on the other side; Jackson accompanies him, and the two men turn up in a desert planet on the other side of the universe, with three moons in its sky. The world in question is ruled by Ra (Jaye Davidson), a hermaphroditic Egyptian sun god, who oppresses hordes of slave workers. Jackson and O’Neill then join forces to help the said workers revolt against their oppressor.