noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a make-up artist (= someone whose job is to put make-up on actors )
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the chief make-up artist on the film
a struggling artist/writer/business
con artist
contemporary artists/writers
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Paintings by contemporary artists covered the walls.
gifted musician/artist/teacher etc
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She was an extremely gifted poet.
mime artist
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a professional mime artist
piss artist
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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She also pays due attention to the different positioning of black women artists within feminist art practice.
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New Deal programs also gave many black artists a chance to develop their craft.
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Does it matter, in 1990, whether a Black artist goes to art school?
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Draper surely got better money at Warner Bros., just as all the black artists signing with the majors did.
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So the occasional gallery owner prepared to support a Black artist gets much credit in this show.
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And most of the music initially played at discos was supplied by black artists .
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In the short run, it made many black artists unacceptable on urban stations.
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Stevie Wonder is a black artist , but a lot of his music comes out pop.
contemporary
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The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.
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You name your favorite contemporary artist and odds are they are involved.
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This is the cue for interactive sculpture by contemporary artists and computer-generated visual effects.
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Nevertheless, many contemporary artists were having their drawings and paintings photographed rather than engraved and sold in different formats.
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The other area is close to the Liffey quays and offers contemporary art and artists studios.
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There are also contributions from contemporary jazz artists ! bold!
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He also patronized contemporary artists , including Thomas Cromek and Dessoulavy.
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March 2-April 1: Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists, a group exhibit featuring seven major contemporary artists .
great
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I mean, there it is: he was the greatest artist at least to me of our century.
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His designs live on today, looking as serenely inevitable as they did decades ago, the art of a great artist .
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For me Ilona is one of the world's great artists .
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Himes' friends and acquaintances included small-time Cleveland hustlers and great artists such as Ralph Ellison.
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A flight of three steps led up into another gallery, this one depicting great artists .
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Maybe we only come to fully appreciate many great athletes and artists just before they walk out the door.
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The little village of Grasemere has inspired many of our great artists and poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge and Ruskin.
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Like great artists they see the world differently.
local
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The exhibition was set up in a room housing the work of early nineteenth century local artists , including Francis Danby.
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And to humanize the plant, how about adding a few paintings and collages from local artists ?
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She went on to her meeting with a young local artist who showed her his portfolio.
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The municipal gallery, though, likely will become the focal point for local artists from now on.
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Each owned a weird splotch of colour in a white and silver frame, painted and framed by a local artist .
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But local artists already have another venue in the city.
modern
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Our entire sense of Caravaggio as a modern artist is, according to historians, a fiction.
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Their ideal was the totally autonomous modern artist unfettered by ancestors, tradition, or nature.
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The price differential between Old Master and modern artists was inevitably reflected in the drawings.
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He asserted that a modern artist should be in tune with his times, careful to avoid hackneyed subjects.
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The fairly weak flow of publications devoted to the work of modern artists has dried up.
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Early modern artists , generally speaking, did little to overturn this convention in painting or sculpture.
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As we have seen, it is not the remit of the modern artist to make facsimiles of nature.
other
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I don't worry about stealing bits from other artists now.
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After all, Toulouse-Lautrec, like many other artists of the late nineteenth century, was obsessed with lesbianism.
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Protect Yourself Young songwriters are often worried about record companies and other artists stealing their songs.
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This old mill by the stream will no doubt inspire other artists , painters, maybe even a songwriter.
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You see Modigliani among other artists who were also friends of my father.
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Certainly no other nineteenth-century artist was so widely studied and so differently interpreted by the painters of the succeeding age.
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Another sort of writing about art is what artists themselves have written, either about their own work or about other artists.
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But other artists have come to light through less likely channels, such as the pages of colour supplements.
professional
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The picture project was part of a district wide experiment to involve children with professional artists .
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Printers, modems and speakers were considered necessities, but scanners were the province of professional artists with money to burn.
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The state chapter is likewise determined to keep that profile high, with a membership including various emerging and professional artists .
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Proper gallery or exhibition space is expensive to hire, prohibitively so for the average professional artist .
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Wendy Jelbert is a professional artist .
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You provide the potential, they provide a professional make-up artist , stylist and photographer.
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Consequently, most professional artists need to exploit a variety of methods for selling their work.
young
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The idea is to reward young artists who would rarely command their highest price on the first sale.
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If Joan was an abstract purist, other young artists were turning toward Bad Painting and cartoon art.
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These threads, gathered together, give us some idea of the current concerns of younger women artists .
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Both grew from self-involved young adults to artists of rare individuality.
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But, like so many young artists in the early decades of the century, Miro could not keep away from Paris.
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The young artist seems to have the same dismissive outlook.
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They were partners in an art gallery that specialized in avant-garde paintings by young artists .
■ NOUN
con
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Recent weeks have seen it ride roughshod over ostrich breeders, society con artists , champagne fraudsters and the occasional fallen tycoon.
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La Tour was a master of light whose subjects ranged from con artists to saints.
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Thorn is determined to prove that Bilko is not just a con artist but a crook.
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Hayes is part-time con artist , part-time investigator.
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Mel Stewart brings an appealing believability to the role of veteran con artist Blue.
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Woodstock police warn that a group of door-to-door con artists were last seen...
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record
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Gone are the days when women recording artists were tightly packaged and adorned with ribbons.
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And recording artists are being placed in that same context.
show
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It shows the artist as Harlequin, drinking in the Paris bar which gives its name to the picture.
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The Red Studio and the views of Matisse at work show an artist exploring the relationship between real and fictive worlds.
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The winner's work will be shown alongside artists in this cartoon hall of fame.
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This year 48 artists work was shown .
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This is a fairly new Gallery which is showing art by artists who have disabilities.
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Carrington's Self-Portrait of 1938-9 shows the artist seated in a room with a lactating hyena and a rocking horse.
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The press photographs show the artist in cowboy hat with a shotgun, surrounded by skulls and horns.
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Philomene Magers continues to show artists who have exerted a strong theoretical influence upon a younger generation.
work
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Upstairs, in the first passage, are works by the artists who set the style for Rudolf's court.
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I look at most of the people I get to work with as artists .
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He says that he's always wanted to work as an artist at Slimbridge - it's a lifetimes dream come true.
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Unemployed after graduating as an architect in 1930, she ended up working as a museum artist in the University of Pennsylvania.
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Here works military heraldic artist Mary Denton.
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Tindle was then working as a commercial artist in Soho and living in a room in Portobello Road.
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I remember going to see some works by the artist Klement Redko.
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Differences of style within the manuscripts containing the signature show that W. de Brail' worked with several other artists .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a frustrated artist/actor/poet etc
artist/actor/teacher etc manqué
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In between travel trips Wilcock ran into a woman at a party who lived with an artist manqué , Walter Bowart.
artist/writer etc in residence
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A trained psychiatric nurse, he is the current artist in residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
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Well, towards the end of 1990 I was appointed artist in residence at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool.
budding artist/actor/writer etc
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Perhaps she is a budding artist, a future novelist.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At that time Picasso was a struggling artist , little known outside Paris.
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I bought some post cards of prints by Japanese artists.
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Leonardo was the greatest artist of his time.
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She's an artist in the kitchen.
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The band are not just successful recording artists - they are constantly touring and playing live to sell-out crowds.
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The obituary described Nureyev as 'a great dancer and a true artist '.
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This exhibit of paintings and sculptures traces the artist 's work during five decades.
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We asked a local artist to come and show her work to the students.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bold artist and rugged individualist, Jones loves to lift the lid on the id.
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Richter is not a conventional painter: he is an artist who happens to use paint as a medium.
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Royalties on record sales govern how much an artist earns from his or her recording career.
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Sis, the son of two artists, grew up in the Czech capital of Prague.
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The Minoan faience artists achieved very high levels of technical ability.
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Through figurative abstracted works on paper, Tempe artist Ron Bimrose taps into light themes like transition, fate and personal choice.
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You've just got to do your best, whether you're a road-sweeper or an artist .