pavement artist

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. sidewalk artist.

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Etymology

Origin of pavement artist

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Because there is a decadent art about, one need not make a hero of the pavement artist.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold

I'm a fust-rate judge of character, though I be but a pavement artist; but a picture's none the less a picture, no matter where it is drawn.

From Vain Fortune by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Fra Angelico, as an irreverent pavement artist, was Culling's artistic parent for the time being.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen

"I'd rather be a pavement artist and my own master than Chief Inspector with an unknown spy following me about."

From Dope by Rohmer, Sax

What is more, in themselves they are as feeble and commonplace as the drawing of a pavement artist, which, in fact, they resemble.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive