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

Mr. Gilliam’s early, close friendship with Thomas Downing, a Color School painter who acted as a mentor, would prove instrumental in his transformation from representational painter to abstractionist.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

With its grant, New Mexico’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will add solar panels, so that the same bright sky that inspired the modern abstractionist can power her museum.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

A well-connected art lover whose brother-in-law was Tancredi, the abstractionist known by his first name, Scatturin had long represented Scarpa.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

“We were both very young, and there was a show with fantastic huge lyrical abstractionist paintings,” he recalls of the exhibition of French artist Georges Mathieu.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2017

With the nonchalance of an abstractionist, he concluded, "Evil doth not exist."

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.