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How to pronounce abstractionism in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms abstract art
Type of genre
Has types op art
Derivation abstractionist
Type Words
Synonyms unrealism
Type of internal representation, mental representation, representation
Derivation abstractionist

Examples of abstractionism

abstractionism
It is an exuberant kind of abstractionism, not freighted with an ounce of post-modern irony.
From the newsobserver.com
Philip Guston was one of the rare artists who turned from abstractionism back to figurative painting.
From the economist.com
The valorization of flatness led to a number of art movements, including minimalism and post-painterly abstractionism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The son of an immigrant Russian pharmacist, Rothko developed his talent with virtually no formal training, progressing from realism through Surrealism to his own version of abstractionism.
From the time.com
When he returned to New Zealand in 1953, he started inserting Maori motifs into European geometric abstractionism, with the koru forms emerging late in the decade.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • An abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
  • A representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples
  • (abstractionist) a painter of abstract pictures
  • Abstractionism is the theory that the mind obtains some or all of its concepts by abstracting them from concepts it already has, or from experience. One may, for example, abstract 'green' from a set of experiences which involve green along with other properties. ...
  • (Abstractionists) Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ...