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

But “Monochromatic Light,” which will be staged by Peter Sellars this fall at the Park Avenue Armory, alongside panels by another abstractionist, Julie Mehretu, is roughly double the 25-minute length of “Rothko Chapel.”

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 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

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

“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

But see now how the abstractionist treats this rich and intricate vision that a certain state of things must be true.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William