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There is a book entitled Kandinsky and old Russia: the artist as ethnographer and shaman, by Peg Weiss. Vasily Kandinsky lived from 1866 to 1944, born in Germany, studying art in France, and is considered both a German and French painter as well as Russian. He first entered Russia as a law student in 1886. It was while in Russia that he was so strongly influenced by the sights around him and proceeded to paint them as he perceived them.
A number of his works deal with other topics besides abstract expressionism, presenting landscapes in a surrealistic fashion. Many paintings could have been painted today, so current are they, on computer! I also read that he was a printmaker and stage designer as well as a canvas artist. Stylistically he is not a detail artist but a vibrant lively topic master.
One of my favorites is "Blue Mountain". You can locate this book at the link below.

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This is the first posted entry for my bookish bookit blog.

My first book of choice is not available today. My second choice is:

"How to draw what you see" by Rudy de Reyna.

Many many years ago when I was a small child, I received as a gift a book from my grandmother entitled "How to draw". I do not recall the author's name (I DID explain to my mother I was not very good at names, especially at age 7), but I do recall the book being a trade paper but very thin, being a child's book. It was brown with an elephant on it's cover, one drawn with circles.
Once this book disappeared, my kindly grandma sat me down at the kitchen table and asked me to draw what I saw. Unfortunately, I was facing a blank wall with a chair rail running around it. So she actually got very little. I did manage to draw a house, with windows, doors and chimney with smoke and a tree.

Spotting this book in the bookstore, I happened to wonder if the two authors were the same.
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