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Artist vs Photorealist - What's the difference?

artist | photorealist |

As nouns the difference between artist and photorealist

is that artist is one who performs extraordinary physical tricks, such as on a trapeze while photorealist is an artist who works in photorealism.

As an adjective photorealist is

of, pertaining to or exemplifying photorealism.

artist

English

Noun

  • A person who creates art.
  • A person who creates art as an occupation.
  • A person who is skilled at some activity.
  • Derived terms

    * artistdom * artistic * artistically * artistry * con artist * escape artist * pickup artist * piss-artist * quick-change artist

    See also

    * animator * artisan * drawer * sculptor

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Artistic.
  • *, vol.1, ch.24:
  • Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions.

    photorealist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An artist who works in photorealism.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, pertaining to or exemplifying photorealism
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 1, author=Martha Schwendener, title=In the 21st Century, the Persistence of Tradition, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Tradition gets a bit of a jolt — although a gentle one — with photorealist works by Robert Cottingham and Richard Estes. }}

    Synonyms

    *photorealistic