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 abstractionist Carmen Herrera produces minimal but eloquent paintings whose strength comes from their intense fusions of color and ascetic form,” she wrote.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 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

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

“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

My dear sir," said I, "you are an abstractionist.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah