NOUN
- a painter of abstract pictures
ADJECTIVE
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not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
a large abstract painting
How To Use abstractionist In A Sentence
- Bojorquez studied at the Chouinard School of Art during the late 60s with abstractionist Matsumi Kanemitsu among others. Tom Gregory: The Influence of the LA Streets on Art
- Their fellow Parisian, Scot Bill Gear, is well represented too, along with important pieces by Alan Reynolds and the still underrated Fife-born abstractionist Stephen Gilbert.
- Leonardo da Vinci was not only one of the earliest European abstractionist, but also a sculptor, an architect , and an engineer.
- Forty-something Innes is renowned as an ascetic abstractionist, his cool squares now a distinctive presence in the history of Scottish art.
- When he painted this work, Hilton had not yet settled in Cornwall, where he was to become a key figure in the amorphous and influential St Ives school of abstractionists.
- The curators thus turn something of a cold shoulder to a generation that contains many fine painterly abstractionists - artists like Dona Nelson, Terry Winters, Bill Jensen, Louise Fishman and Cora Cohen, to name just a handful.
- No matter that his reputation rests on his pre-eminence as an abstractionist, Kelly's art is firmly rooted in what he sees.
- “abstractionist” view (following the terminology of Van Inwagen 1986), or “ersatz” view (in the terminology of Lewis 1986) is prima facie committed only to representations, as a modal fictionalist must it seems also be, but the abstractionist is a realist about possible worlds, and thus has prima facie a more straightforward approach than the fictionalist's. Modal Fictionalism
- A John Ferren rug and a diminutive glade of Dorothy Dehner sculptures demonstrate that it was possible to evoke the abstractionist spirit in smalls and works in media other than paint. Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Ab Ex NY: A Contemporary Re-Telling of the Abstract Expressionist Tale Opens at MoMA
- Scully is not an abstractionist in the formalist sense of the word.