an artist, philosopher, or person who practices or believes in abstraction or abstractionism.
From abstraction + -ist practitioner suffix. Coined in the 1910s-1920s to describe artists working in the new abstract movement.
Famous abstractionists like Wassily Kandinsky believed they were creating a 'spiritual' art form—that non-representational paintings could move the soul the way music does, without showing recognizable things.
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