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slikar

Slikar is a term used in several South Slavic languages, most notably Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian, to denote a painter—an artist who creates pictures or paintings with media such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, or ink. The word can refer to a professional artist in the fine arts as well as to someone who paints, for example, a house or a building, depending on context. In many languages the masculine form is slikar, while feminine forms such as slikarica or slikarka are used for women.

Etymology and related terms: slikar is derived from slika, meaning picture or image, with the agentive suffix

-ar.
Related
terms
include
slikarstvo
(pictorial
art,
painting
as
a
field)
and,
in
Slovenian,
likovna
umetnost
for
the
broader
category
of
fine
arts.
The
term
is
widely
used
in
art
discourse
and
everyday
language
across
the
region,
with
regional
spelling
and
gender
forms
reflecting
each
language’s
grammar.