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colourist

/ ˈkʌlərɪst /

noun

  1. a person who uses colour, esp an artist
  2. a person who colours photographs, esp black-and-white ones


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Derived Forms

  • ˌcolourˈistic, adjective

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Example Sentences

Humble life and animals were depicted by Morland, who was true to nature and a fine colourist.

Gros became the great colourist of the Classical school, the singer of the Napoleonic epos.

From the glimpses we have of its nature and laws, we may hope for fresh inspiration for the art of the colourist.

He was born near Bergamo, and many works by this fine colourist are in the galleries of that town.

As a colourist he was not pre-eminent, and his few panel pictures are for the most part unfinished.

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