# artist (creative)

a person who creates art

- Computed level: L11 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence  ·  Arena: artist

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [art](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-art.creative), [create](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-create.production)

**Through:** people use creative production to make art, transforming meaning and pattern into a tangible form

**Novel properties:**
- individual creative agency
- artistic authorship
- expression through crafted artifacts

## Examples
- Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa in the early 1500s, using oil on poplar wood. *(art)*
- Banksy stenciled 'Girl with Balloon' on a London wall in 2002, later reworked as a shredded artwork. *(urban)*
- Kaiju Big Daddy created the sculpture 'Mechagodzilla' from scrap metal in Tokyo in 2018. *(sculpture)*

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