Interesting. Speaking for myself, if I had been able to draw and paint half decent, I´m not sure I would have started with photography. But once started, one soon finds it is an entirely different language.
The Kandinsky book you link too looks interesting, but it´s horribly expensive...
Actually, Kandinsky spent some time here in Stockholm in 1915, together with his partner Gabriele Munther; he even had a show here. So our Museum of Modern art has a few good paintings.
We had a Swedish painter, Hilma af Klint, who is often considered a precursor of Kandinsky´s spiritual abstractions. She never met Kandinsky afaik, and her art is quite different. Here is a link to a decent, English web page about her:
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART34427.html
OK, suppose I have to add some abstraction to keep to the theme... This was the first one I found in my archive (certainly no Kandinsky..
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