Artist

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 as a person who expresses themselves through a medium. The word also is used in a qualitative sense of, a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.

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.