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Description: For this reason, it isn't clear who the first Modernist abstract painter was: it could have been Robert Delaunay in Paris; or the American Arthur Dove; the Czech František Kupka; the Russians Wassily Kandinsky or Kasimir Malevich; the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian; Balla in Italy or many others. Rather than an invention of an individual,... ( +expand to view full text )

Description: For this reason, it isn't clear who the first Modernist abstract painter was: it could have been Robert Delaunay in Paris; or the American Arthur Dove; the Czech František Kupka; the Russians Wassily Kandinsky or Kasimir Malevich; the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian; Balla in Italy or many others. Rather than an invention of an individual, abstraction in Modernist painting appeared as a cultural phenomenon.