colorist

[ kuhl-er-ist ]

noun
  1. a person who uses color skillfully.

  2. a painter who emphasizes color relationships in a work of art.

  1. a person who colors photographs.

  2. a hairdresser who is skilled in coloring or tinting hair.

  3. a musical performer or composer who is skilled in bringing musical color.

Origin of colorist

1
1680–90; color + -ist; compare French coloriste

Other words from colorist

  • col·or·is·tic, adjective
  • col·or·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb

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How to use colorist in a sentence

  • There are probably but eight or ten galleries in New York where colorists are employed all the year round.

    Work for Women | George J. Manson
  • Sometimes they are destined to support dynamic effects, sometimes reduced to the role of simple “colorists.”

    An Autobiography | Igor Stravinsky
  • By dint of preaching austerity of tone and training his pupils to beware of colorists, he veiled his whole school in gray.

  • But among the greater colorists of Italy the aim was not always so simple nor the method so determinable.

  • If in scenes taken from human life, he equals the greatest colorists, he is alone in the imaginary scenes of eternal life.

    Famous European Artists | Sarah K. Bolton