tortured artist 

Over-emotional, "artistic" individuals. Can be characterized by wearing a lot of black, having an online blog, and being obsessed with poetry. Often have unattended psychological dissorders.

"She's not goth, she's just a tortured artist!"

tortured artist by Anonymous June 25, 2003

torture artist 

A sadist that makes torturing others into a creative artform or sometimes just a really offensive piece of work.

Person A: "My english professor is such a torture artist. She assigned 3, 10-page essays all due before the end of term."
Person B: "But wait isn't the end of term next week?"
Person: "Exactly."

torture artist by PimpstressMI October 1, 2014