How to Use conceptualist in a Sentence

conceptualist

noun
  • Eric was the sample king and Hank was the overall conceptualist.
    George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • This season, the conceptualist crafted frame-like tents out of wood, rope, and fabric that obscured his models’ faces.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The compelling trumpeter and new-jazz conceptualist Douglas is obviously not a man with a frail ego.
    The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • This great quasi-conceptualist who changed the course of art with art that ruptured definitions is now one of the most devoted craftsmen of painting alive.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
  • So Kendrick the competitor is on full alert here, but Lamar the artist and conceptualist never hits the snooze button either.
    Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Unlike Duchamp, whose work can be difficult and arcane, Baldessari is a conceptualist with a common touch.
    Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2020
  • He is also compared to artists such as German conceptualist Martin Kippenberger quite often, which is not exactly an insult.
    Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The crisp, matter-of-fact approach, in this piece and throughout, dovetails with that of many of his fellow Southern California conceptualists of the early ’70s.
    Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
  • Kate Bush — This one-of-a-kind English singer, songwriter and musical conceptualist counted the late Prince among her high-profile admirers.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • For this elegant exhibition, the stalwart Dutch conceptualist delves into his past, reworking negatives from the nineteen-seventies.
    The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017

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