Example sentences for: artist

How can you use “artist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Photomontage thumbs its nose at the pretension of the artist playing God, the blank canvas his world.

  • Not since Bernini decked Rome with fountains, or at least not since the Wyeths became Maine's official art family, has an artist so exemplified the spirit of a city or region--and it took three generations of Wyeths.

  • That old politique --the auteur theory, in plain English--was first articulated in the 1950s by a group of French critics, many of whom went on to become, as directors, fixtures of the Nouvelle Vague . In a nutshell, the theory--brought to these shores in 1962 by Village Voice film critic Andrew Sarris--held that, like any work of art, a film represents the vision of an individual artist, almost always the director.

  • I'm thinking of Ernst's mock Renaissance altarpiece of the Virgin spanking the Holy Infant with the artist, Breton, and I think Éluard as witnesses.

  • The colorful little symbols filling the grids remind me of Gustav Klimt (whom Close studied in Vienna in 1964), especially when Close is luxuriating in the dark tangle of the artist Kiki Smith's hair ( Kiki , 1993).


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