allegorist

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In an interview that Baldwin gave with Quincy Troupe toward the end of his life, he said that Toni was an allegorist, but that’s not really true.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019

He was primarily an allegorist who folded mythic figures into otherworldly visions of pagan religiosity.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2016

Erró, the Icelandic painter who has been friends with Mr. Rosenquist since the two met in New York in the early 1960s, would instead be a late-medieval religious allegorist.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016

A galvanic force--ambitious, hugely inventive, avaricious--he is the portraitist of the poshest plutocrats, nobly aglitter, and the allegorist of human wreckage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The symbolist, unlike the allegorist, cannot disregard the actual, the reality as it seems: he must, indeed, be supremely heedful of this reality as it seems.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona