ABSTRACTIONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abstractionist mean? 

• ABSTRACTIONIST (noun)
  The noun ABSTRACTIONIST has 1 sense:

1. a painter of abstract pictures

  Familiarity information: ABSTRACTIONIST used as a noun is very rare.

• ABSTRACTIONIST (adjective)
  The adjective ABSTRACTIONIST has 1 sense:

1. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature

  Familiarity information: ABSTRACTIONIST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSTRACTIONIST (noun)

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Meaning:

A painter of abstract pictures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

abstract artist; abstractionist

Hypernyms ("abstractionist" is a kind of...):

painter (an artist who paints)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abstractionist"):

suprematist (an artist of the school of suprematism)

Instance hyponyms:

Albers; Josef Albers (United States painter born in Germany; works characterized by simple geometrical patterns in various colors (1888-1976))

Mondrian; Piet Mondrian (Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944))

Derivation:

abstractionism (an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation)

abstractionism (a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples)

abstractionist (not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature)

• ABSTRACTIONIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature

Synonyms:

abstract; abstractionist; nonfigurative; nonobjective

Context example:

a large abstract painting

Similar:

nonrepresentational (of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature)

Derivation:

abstractionist (a painter of abstract pictures)