His megalomaniac character made him a solitary and isolated artist, whose work moved the last few decades to the U.S.A. where became a beloved artist.

Like many gifted architects, he was a contradictory figure: a solitary artist who chose to work in a highly social form of art.

I don't buy into the idea of solitary artists.

Today's free market was inconceivable until the end of medieval society produced the "solitary artist, a new social species, who becomes an egotistical wanderer in search of a patron."

Yet despite her success, Sherman is a solitary artist who rarely uses a studio assistant.

For Pop artists, the sublime was too metaphysical, the notion of art as an arena too romantic, the idealization of the solitary heroic artist too sentimental.

However he was a very private and solitary artist, working incessantly, always buried in his own world and somewhat outside the art world.

Again, Mr. Handke presents us with a solitary artist who, as he puts it, cannot take people "into himself" until they are far removed, preferably dead.

Herman was solitary artist who pursued his own vision, largely unaffected by contemporary trends in modern art.

The answer, she argues, is that James wanted to promote "the legend of a solitary artist" and erase, or at least diminish, "the ghostly companions of his art."