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Were there abstract painters before modern contemporary works? It seems objectively easier to paint like Rothko than Davinci. Did no one hundreds of years ago ever paint an abstract like you’d see at a middle class furniture store? If they did, have any works survived?

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Were there abstract painters before modern contemporary works? It seems objectively easier to paint like Rothko than Davinci. Did no one hundreds of years ago ever paint an abstract like you’d see at a middle class furniture store? If they did, have any works survived?	3