abstractionist

American  

[ab-strak-shuh-nist] / æbˈstræk ʃə nɪst /

noun

1. a person who produces abstract works of art.

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adjective

1. showing abstract characteristics in art; tending toward abstractionism.

Etymology

Origin of abstractionist

First recorded in 1835–45, for an earlier sense; abstraction + -ist

Example Sentences

The early-20th-century abstractionist Piet Mondrian, now one of my favorite painters, didn’t really move me at first, but I kept looking at his work because I knew my father loved it.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

She connected there with a key mentor, the Black abstractionist Al Loving, who had moved away from painting to make works accumulating torn paper and canvas.

From New York Times • May 7, 2021

Although each is an American abstractionist who emerged in the 1950s or ’60s, Ed Clark, Richard W. Franklin and Kenneth Young don’t intersect in many other ways.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2018

The forms draw on diverse pictorial legacies — say, an Uruguayan abstractionist like Joaquín Torres-Garcia and a Swiss one like Max Bill or a Russian like El Lissitzky.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2018

Mr. Ralph Hawtrey, who seems also to serve under the banner of abstractionist logic, convicts us pragmatists of absurdity by arguments similar to Mr. Russell's.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William