Artist

An artist is a person engaged in creating art, or practicing the arts. The most common usage in everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only.

However, the term is also very widely used in the entertainment business to refer to actors, musicians, singers, dancers and other performers.^[1] The French word artiste is sometimes used in English in this context, although this has become old-fashioned. The use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews;^[2] "author" is generally used instead.

While the use of the word 'artist' is common, there is no agreed upon definition of art^[3]—this makes the definition of who is and is not an artist indeterminate. Many artist and theorists still debate their interpretation of art's definition.^[4]

I am only pointing out that my project, like Collingwood's, Osborne's, and others', is metaphysical in nature. I am interested in trying to find out what a work of art is and what it is essentially.