What is "colorist"

Colorist \Col"or*ist\, n. [Cf. F. coloriste.] One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.

Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists.
--Dryden.

n. 1 One who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring 2 A hairdresser who is a specialist in colouring and tinting hair.

n. a painter able to achieve special effects with color

In comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black-and-white line art. For most of the 20th century this was done using brushes and dyes which were then used as guides to produce the printing plates. Since the late 20th century it is most often done using digital media, with printing separations produced electronically.

Although most European colorists work directly for comics publishers (either as employees or freelancers), there are a few coloring studios which offer their services to publishers. American Color, Olyoptics, and Digital Chameleon were companies notable in this field.

The Colorists were a group of sixteenth-century German organ composers that heavily ornamented their compositions following Italian coloraturas and other figures. Among others, the colorists include Sebastian Virdung, Arnolt Schlick, Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach, Paul Hofhaimer, Bernhard Schmid the Elder, Bernhard Schmid the Younger, Jacob Paix, Conrad Paumann, and Johann Woltz. The term was originally a derogatory designation applied by August Gottfried Ritter (1811–1885), and they were accused of having "overindulge[d] in the use of splashy and meaningless coloratura passages."

A colorist is a comics artist responsible for adding color to black-and-white line art.

Colorist may also refer to:

• Hair colorist, a hairstylist that specializes in coloring hair
• Colourist painting, a style of art characterized by the use of intense color
• Color Field painting, a style of abstract art characterized by large fields of flat, solid color
• Scottish Colourists, a group of painters from Scotland in the early 1900s
• Colorist (music), a group of sixteenth-century German organ composers
• Colorist, one who performs color grading on images
• Colorist, one who discriminates based on skin color
• The Colourist, a rock music ensemble from Orange County, California
  • The Colourist (album), the debut album from the band of the same name