Artists vs.

Artisans

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the

arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic
discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the
entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other
performers (less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a variant used in
English only in this context; this use is becoming rare. Use of the term to describe
writers, for example, is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like
criticism. (www.wikipedia.com)

The following are a few examples of artists in their fields of expertise:

An image of a Bagiuo painter with his artwork (businessmirror.com.ph)

 Ryan Cayabyab, A National Artist of the Philippines for Music (ncaa.gov.ph)

An artisan (from French: artisan, Italian: artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who
makes or creates things by hand that may be functional or strictly decorative, for example
furniture, decorative arts, sculptures, clothing, jewellery, food items, household items and
tools or even mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker.
Artisans practice a craft and may through experience and aptitude reach the expressive
levels of an artist. The adjective "artisanal" is sometimes used in describing hand-
processing in what is usually viewed as an industrial process, such as in the phrase
artisanal mining. Thus, "artisanal" is sometimes used in marketing and advertising as a
buzz word to describe or imply some relation with the crafting of handmade food
products, such as bread, beverages or cheese. Many of these have traditionally been
handmade, rural or pastoral goods but are also now commonly made on a larger scale
with automated mechanization in factories and other industrial areas. Artisans were the
dominant producers of consumer products before the Industrial Revolution. In ancient
Greece, artisans were drawn to agoras and often built workshops nearby. Below are a few
images of artisans doing their crafts:

Sources: pinterest.com, slideshare.com and devex.com (google images)

 Here is a Venn Diagram which features the similarities
and differences of artists and artisans.

source:scribd.com (google images)