Artist

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Artist

Artist, according to UNESCO (1980), means any person who creates, gives creative expression to, or recreates works of art, who considers his or her artistic creation to be an essential part of his or her life, who contributes in this way to the development of art and culture, and who is or asks to be recognised as an artist, whether or not he or she is bound by any relations of employment or association. Concerning formal regulations of the status of artists and cultural professionals, ‘artist’ refers more specifically to any occupationally active person who is defined or accepted as such in at least one of the following legal frameworks: taxation, labour law, social security and access to public funding. For stylistic reasons, the word ‘artist’ in this report is used as a general term that includes artists and other cultural and creative workers, for example ‘status of the artist’ rather than ‘status of artists and cultural and creative workers’, unless specified otherwise (“The status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals”, report of the OMC (open method of coordination) working group of member states’ experts, June 2023).