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colorist

[ kuhl-er-ist ]

noun

  1. a person who uses color skillfully.
  2. a painter who emphasizes color relationships in a work of art.
  3. a person who colors photographs.
  4. a hairdresser who is skilled in coloring coloring or tinting hair.
  5. a musical performer or composer who is skilled in bringing musical color.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • DZo·t adjective
  • DZo·t·· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of colorist1

1680–90; color + -ist; compare French coloriste
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The artist Norman Zammitt, a colorist who excelled as a painter, remains less well known than his peers in the Light and Space movement.

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So she was having her hair done with her colorist in L.A. and then messaged me and said, “I think it’s gone very dark.”

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Hernández is a brilliant colorist, the vivid hues sometimes functioning in suggestive symbolic mode while always reveling in pure decorative joy.

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And they show off Agar’s brilliance as a colorist — which was unusual for her generation of British artists — and perhaps indebted to Matisse.

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The great thing about Rachmaninoff is that he is a colorist in the way he writes for the piano.

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