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  • noun One who is not an artist (creator of art).

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non- +‎ artist

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Examples

  • Keith Harris, a nonartist art historian at Ohio University's School of Interdisciplinary Arts, said that the PhD can enhance studio production, but many students have found that getting a PhD takes away from work in the studio.

    Daniel Grant: Universities to Artists: Get a Doctorate? Daniel Grant 2011

  • Keith Harris, a nonartist art historian at Ohio University's School of Interdisciplinary Arts, said that the PhD can enhance studio production, but many students have found that getting a PhD takes away from work in the studio.

    Daniel Grant: Universities to Artists: Get a Doctorate? Daniel Grant 2011

  • Keith Harris, a nonartist art historian at Ohio University's School of Interdisciplinary Arts, said that the PhD can enhance studio production, but many students have found that getting a PhD takes away from work in the studio.

    Daniel Grant: Universities to Artists: Get a Doctorate? Daniel Grant 2011

  • Keith Harris, a nonartist art historian at Ohio University's School of Interdisciplinary Arts, said that the PhD can enhance studio production, but many students have found that getting a PhD takes away from work in the studio.

    Daniel Grant: Universities to Artists: Get a Doctorate? Daniel Grant 2011

  • Yet several of the nonartist naturalists in "Field Notes" manage well enough.

    Spiral-Bound and Spellbound Jennie Erin Smith 2011

  • He admits he's a nonartist, so he measures everything instead of eyeballing it.

    The Other Side Of The Opening 2008

  • That the artist might be distinguished from the nonartist by the quality of his imagination rather than by his manual training did not occur to

    CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968

  • - to his family, to nonartist friends, to himself - why he devoted so much of his time and energy to something as nonremunerative as poetry.

    RVABlogs 2008

  • - to his family, to nonartist friends, to himself - why he devoted so much of his time and energy to something as nonremunerative as poetry.

    RVABlogs 2008

  • - to his family, to nonartist friends, to himself - why he devoted so much of his time and energy to something as nonremunerative as poetry.

    NEWSgrist - where spin is art 2008

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