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  1. If you stick to more or less close contexts, then the first good avant-garde painting with a stripe will be Rozanova's “Green Stripe”.

    If we go a little further, and allow for the consideration of easel works that have nothing to do with modernism, that is, for example, tantric painting of the 17th century:

    Finally, if we look at non-Stank works, similar abstractions are found in early 11th-century Cologne manuscripts, such as Évangéliaire de Cologne, fol. 126v-127:

    Now that we're so far away, I can't pass up the opportunity to mention prehistoric abstraction in rock art. Here are ornaments from the Koonalda cave in Australia, they are about 20 thousand years old.

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