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miniaturist

[ min-ee-uh-cher-ist, min-uh-cher- ]

noun

  1. an artist whose specialty is small, discrete works.
  2. a person who makes, collects, or specializes in miniature objects:

    a miniaturist with a collection of dollhouses.



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noun

  1. a person who paints miniature portraits
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of miniaturist1

First recorded in 1850–55; miniature + -ist
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She’s more of a miniaturist than a maximalist, though the volcanic emotion she taps into is its own theatrical force.

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She soon developed a real passion for her creations, so much so she's now become the resident miniaturist for The Museum of the Home in Hoxton, London.

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Reichardt and Hong have often been classified, sometimes condescendingly, as art-house miniaturists, but the worlds they create and invite us into are too enveloping, too precise in their details, to feel anything less than enormous.

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Swinton is a wonderful chameleon and while she can go as big and showy as any Oscar contender, she is also a brilliant miniaturist.

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In turn, some critics found him short of original ideas and dynamism, a miniaturist unable to sustain longer pieces.

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