intimist

[ in-tuh-mist ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the recording of intimate personal and psychological experiences as a basis for art, literature, etc.:

   an intimist novel.

noun

1. an intimist painter, writer, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of intimist¹

1900–05; < French intimiste, equivalent to intime intimate ¹ + -iste -ist

Example Sentences

Times art critic Christopher Knight calls painter Mark Innerst “an intimist of spectacle.”

From Los Angeles Times

As a painter, Mark Innerst is an intimist of spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times

At once familiar and slightly bizarre, Ann Toebbe’s meticulous collages belong to the stay-at-home intimist tradition that begins with Édouard Vuillard’s Parisian interiors.

From New York Times

In other galleries, the intimist abstractions of Paul Klee converse with those of Arthur Dove; an early painting by Arshile Gorky and the adjacent painted wall relief by Jean Arp make contrasting uses of similar biomorphic shapes, and Jean Dubuffet’s great “Woman Grinding Coffee,” from 1945, is neighbor to a painting of three women titled “Stage Beauties,” a 1944 work by the self-taught American artist Morris Hirshfield.

From New York Times

The giddy colourist is really a daring philosopher, the intimist a public man after all.

From The Guardian