artist

noun

• 1a person who creates paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby.
• a person who practises or performs any of the creative arts, such as a sculptor, film-maker, actor, or dancer.
• a person skilled at a particular task or occupation:a surgeon who is an artist with the scalpel

• 2 [with modifier] informal a person who habitually practises a specified reprehensible activity:rip-off artists