An Artists is an Artist is an Artist

Definition of artist according to the San Diego Municipal Code,Chapter 02, 06Division 07, Section 26.0702:

Artist means an individual generally recognized by critics and peers as a professional practitioner of the visual, performing, or language arts, or a combination thereof, based on that professional practitioner’s body of work, educational background, experience, past commissions, exhibition/ performance record, publications, and
production of artworks.

Barely-related quote: If that's art, I'm a Hottentot. -- Harry S Truman, in 1947 after viewing a group of paintings the State Department had bought for an overseas tour meant to demonstrate to non-believers that artistic creativity flourished best in America, under American capitalism. The works were hardly radical; none were abstract, let alone Abstract Expressionist.