abstractionist
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of abstractionist
First recorded in 1835–45, for an earlier sense; abstraction + -ist
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A guest uses a silicon brush to apply sauces onto an entree, a nod to abstractionist Jackson Pollock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Unlike her noted predecessors, however, Wolfe isn’t a pure abstractionist.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
The work of geometric abstractionist Matthew Thomas is in some ways a product of these encounters that happened during the expansion of the West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
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
The mere abstractionist or doctrinaire would aim at the formation of a code of great simplicity: the practitioner sees in it the parent of uncertainty and injustice.
From An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition by George Sharswood
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