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1 Terpsichore (the '[one who] delights in dance'): muse of ________ song and dance

2 Thalia (the 'blossoming one'): muse of comedy and ________

3 The word also is used in a qualitative sense of, a person ________ in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.

4 In Greek culture each of the nine ________ oversaw a different field of human creation:

5 Contrasting terms for highly-skilled workers in media in the applied arts or decorative arts include artisan, craftsman, and specialized terms such as potter, goldsmith or ________.

6 The French word artiste (which in French, simply means "artist") has been imported into the ________ where it means a performer (frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville).

7 The ________ defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist,"

8 Melpomene (the 'chanting one'): muse of ________

9 The common usage in both everyday speech and academic ________ is a practitioner in the visual arts only.

10 One who cultivates one of the ________ - traditionally the arts presided over by the muses - now the dominant usage

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Robert Brandon, goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later Chamberlain of London, was the father-in-law of the artist Nicholas Hilliard and of Captain John Martin of the Jamestown Colony?
  • Irish cricketer and artist Robert Gregory was the subject of four poems by W. B. Yeats?
  • the artist and illustrator N. C. Wyeth (pictured) was the grandfather of Howard Wyeth, the stride pianist and drummer for Bob Dylan?
  • the Bulldozer Exhibition has got its name because the Soviet authorities actually used bulldozers to disperse the spectators and destroy the paintings of the participating Moscow nonconformist artists?
  • Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists, which as of February 2009 consists of over 600,000 members, and 3 million submissions?
  • Chen Wen Hsi was the first Singaporean artist to be conferred an honorary doctorate by the National University of Singapore?
  • Dutch painter Willem Thibaut made the cartoons for the two stained-glass windows in the Sint Janskerk in 1570?
  • Singaporean artist Chua Ek Kay’s ink paintings blended traditional Chinese painting forms and Western art theories and techniques?
  • Ukrainian realist artist Apollon Mokritsky played the significant role of introducing the former serf and talented artist Taras Shevchenko to the Ukrainian and Russian intelligentsia?
  • Vietnamese-born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs?
  • actor Buck Taylor, though he still appears in mostly Western films, is also a prolific artist of the American West?