abstractionist

[ab-strak-shuh-nist]

noun

1. a person who produces abstract works of art.

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of abstractionist¹

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

Example Sentences

“I’m not an abstractionist,” she told The New York Times in 1983.

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The curator, a local painter represented by the gallery, selected the work of five longtime friends, most of them abstractionists.

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Unlike her noted predecessors, however, Wolfe isn’t a pure abstractionist.

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Like a cartoon drawing by Ad Reinhardt, the most rigorous of American abstractionists, he points excitedly beneath the girl’s skirt, presumably where an explanation might be found.

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The work of geometric abstractionist Matthew Thomas is in some ways a product of these encounters that happened during the expansion of the West.

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