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The first abstract painting was a spilled ink accident titled “Intention.” Which is how you turn mistakes into legacy.

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The first abstract painting is debated. Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint are often credited in the early 1910s, and their works were deliberate, not a titled ink spill.

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