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 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

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

“There’s stuff in my head,” Ms. Rockburne, an abstractionist with lively, penetrating eyes and a ready smile, recently explained.

From New York Times • May 4, 2018

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 Sharswood, George