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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?

Artist

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

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