If you are referring to a male artist, then it is un artiste, or l'artiste. If the artist is female, then it is une artiste, or l'artiste.
Un atelier d'artiste
Renoir, Monet, Manet and Matisse
Jacques-Louis David.
All the impressionists.
NABIS
apex..... French writers and artists such as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, and Edouard Manet
"Les artistes" is a French equivalent of the English phrase "The artists."Specifically, the feminine/masculine plurale definite article "les" means "the." The feminine/masculine noun "artistes" means "artists." The pronunciation is "leh-zahr-teest."
Elizabeth Hutton Turner has written: 'Americans in Paris' -- subject(s): American Art, Art, American, Artists, Biography, Expatriate artists 'American artists in Paris, 1919-1929' -- subject(s): American Art, Americans, Art, American, Art, French, Artists, Expatriate artists, French Art, History 'Pierre Bonnard'
Les Nabis
All French Barbizon painters
Jacques-Louis David, Fragonard, E Vigée-Lebrun ...
I would say yes.