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Colorist

noun

A painter able to achieve special effects with color.

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... instinct. And it sometimes happens that very great performers, trying to explain some technical function, do not know how to make their meaning clear. With regard to bowing, I remember that Joachim (a master colorist with the bow) used to tell his students to play largely with the wrist. What he really meant was with an elbow-joint movement, that is, moving the bow, which should always be connected with a movement of the forearm ...

— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens

... this description of Rubens's pictures and the effect they produced upon Motley, because there is a certain affinity between those sumptuous and glowing works of art and the prose pictures of the historian who so admired them. He was himself a colorist in language, and called up the image of a great personage or a splendid pageant of the past with the same affluence, the same rich vitality, that floods and warms the vast areas of canvas over which the ...

— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Words linked to "Colorist" : painter, color