Artist 🧑‍🎨
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The artist emoji, depicting a person alongside an artist's palette. This emoji is used to express artists, painters, and creative professionals. Common usage includes 'Want to be an artist🧑‍🎨' 'Art making🧑‍🎨' or 'Painting🧑‍🎨' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series.

Artists work across various fields including painting, sculpture, design, contemporary art, and digital art. The emoji can represent legendary artists throughout history: Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Salvador Dalí, Hokusai (the Japanese ukiyo-e master who created 'The Great Wave'), Yokoyama Taikan, Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Johannes Vermeer, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The emoji is used in posts about art, creativity, artistic activities, museum visits, gallery openings, painting classes, children's creative work, art school decisions, and artists' self-expression. It's increasingly used by digital artists and NFT creators as well.