What's the difference between a painter and an artist? thank you

A painter paints. What is an artist? Please see:

refers to artists who have high aesthetic ability and skillful creative skills and have made some achievements in artistic creation; It includes not only those who take artistic creation as their special occupation in the art field, but also those who engage in artistic creation outside their own occupation.

artists are the product of social division of labor. In the early stage of mankind, when spiritual production and material production were not separated, skilled craftsmen were early artists. Later, with the development of production, the final division between manual labor and mental labor in social division of labor made art production an independent spiritual production department, thus providing objective conditions for the emergence of professional artists. At the same time, human long-term labor practice has created subjective conditions for the emergence of artists: on the one hand, it has created the artist's aesthetic senses, dexterous limbs, sound psychological structure, skilled skills and abilities, etc. On the other hand, it has created a rich and complicated spiritual world of people and created an indispensable aesthetic demand for art in the whole society. Without this demand, there would be no artists.

artists are the main body of artistic creation. As a creative subject, developed aesthetic perception, creative imagination, rich emotions and skillful artistic expression skills are the main connotations of artists. Rich life experience and keen and profound insight into life are the qualities that artists must have. A serious attitude towards life and a great sense of responsibility for human destiny are the main moral qualities of artists. Artistic talent is also very important for artists. Successful artists always have some outstanding artistic talent. As far as some kinds of art, such as painting, dance and music art, the importance of artistic talent of the creative subject is particularly prominent. Great artists are engineers of the human soul. Therefore, artists should be people with high ideological accomplishment and good artistic accomplishment. A great artist is also a thinker. The artist's thoughts are expressed in works of art through fleshy artistic images, which are more vivid than abstract theories. Artists have great reaction to social practice. This reaction is mainly realized through the works of art created by artists. It may not only give people spiritual comfort, but also give people spiritual encouragement; It may give people a sense of emptiness and calmness, or it may give people a sense of turmoil; It may not only make a nation's spirit stable and strengthen, but also make it disintegrate and lax; It may not only improve the interest of an era, but also ruin the interest of an era; It may not only "lubricate" a certain society, but also "rub" a certain society. If scientists give order to nature, ethicists give order to society; Then, excellent artists give order to the spirit and give the whole universe the final freedom and harmony in an imaginary space.

With the improvement of social civilization, more and more people will take part in art activities. In order to meet the artistic aesthetic needs of different levels and classes of society, there are so-called serious artist types and popular (popular) artist types. This phenomenon is widely seen in various artistic fields. In addition, there is a large number of artists, namely folk artists. The existence of this type of artists is closely related to national traditions, national aesthetic psychology and interest, folk crafts and customs, and is also a force that cannot be ignored in the ranks of artists. Therefore, in the study of aesthetics or art, no matter what kind of artists, they should not be ignored.