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landscapist

landscapist

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An artist who paints scenes of land and sky
  • noun
  • /ˈlændˌskeɪpɪst/
translation icon : paisajista
  • As a landscapist, she specializes in creating stunning depictions of rural scenery.
  • the great landscapist

Examples

  • As the poet-critic-landscapist moves toward new visions of how language can express issues such as conflict, connectedness and solitude, and desire arise.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Here, Duret opposes Pissarro's soul to his landscapist colleagues' lack of seriousness.

    Academic text (1998)
  • A landscapist can show himself with a portrait; a portraitist can exhibit a marine.

    Academic text (1991)
  • I consider, first of all, that one cannot claim to be a painter, even with a solid talent as a landscapist, any more than one is a musician on the strength of a few tunes on the piano.

    Academic text (1998)
  • It is necessary that the landscapist efface himself in favor of the painter.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Enthusiastic critics saluted the paintings as a new, yet unknown phase in the career of the "master landscapist matre paysagiste." This will be a new phase of his talent.

    Academic text (2015)
  • And also, like the western landscapists, changes in the capitalistic process and technologies entwine with the photographs themselves and the practices surrounding their creation and consumption.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The fields and the void have not, at least in this landscape, been subject to the landscapist's study, and they are clearly quite different from the trunks that Ponge has promised to bring into the realm of the logos.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Powerful forces of technological and capitalist change unraveled the tenuous coupling between business and art that helped make possible the impressive successes of landscapists like H. H. Bennett.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The renowned landscapist captured the beauty of the mountains in his latest painting.

Surface Forms

landscapist singular
landscapists plural

Morphology

landscapist = landscape (transparent) = landscape + ist

The meaning is directly formed from 'landscape' + the agentive suffix '-ist', indicating a person who paints or works with landscapes.

Etymology

Landscapist comes from the word landscape ('a view or scene of land') plus the ending -ist ('a person who does something'), like in artist. So a landscapist is someone who paints scenes of land and nature.